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Siteless
Francois Blanciak
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Description for Siteless
Paperback. An attempt to free architecture from site and program constraints and to counter the profusion of ever bigger architecture books with ever smaller content. Num Pages: 128 pages, 1006 b&w illus. BIC Classification: AM; TNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 141 x 11. Weight in Grams: 302.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
240g
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262026307
SKU
V9780262026307
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About Francois Blanciak
Francois Blanciak is an architect and Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo. He has worked for architectural firms in Los Angeles, Copenhagen, Hong Kong, and New York, with such architects as Frank Gehry and Peter Eisenman.
Reviews for Siteless
Imagine Learning from Las Vegas as illustrated by Chris Ware, and you'll get a sense of Francois Blanciak's marvelously inventive new book. -Metropolis In Siteless: 1001 Building Forms, French architect Francois Blanciak surrenders the usual anchors of function and site for an exercise in pure form. His astoundingly imaginative 1,001 designs could challenge architects and engineers for ... Read more