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Siteless: 1001 Building Forms

Siteless: 1001 Building Forms

Blanciak, Francois

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General Architecture

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ISBN10: 0262026309
ISBN13: 9780262026307
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Mar 1 2008
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.74 Depth: 8.08
Language: English
An attempt to free architecture from site and program constraints and to counter the profusion of ever bigger architecture books with ever smaller content.

Some may call it the first manifesto of the twenty-first century, for it lays down a new way to think about architecture. Others may think of it as the last architectural treatise, for it provides a discursive container for ideas that would otherwise be lost. Whatever genre it belongs to, SITELESS is a new kind of architecture book that seems to have come out of nowhere. Its author, a young French architect practicing in Tokyo, admits he didn't do this out of reverence toward architecture, but rather out of a profound boredom with the discipline, as a sort of compulsive reaction. What would happen if architects liberated their minds from the constraints of site, program, and budget? he asks. The result is a book that is saturated with forms, and as free of words as any architecture book the MIT Press has ever published.

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