TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blanciak,François
TI  - Siteless: 1001 building forms 
SN  - 9780262026307
AV  - NA2760 .B52 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Composition, proportion, etc
KW  - Form (Aesthetics)
KW  - Bildband
KW  - gnd
N1  - Hong Kong -- New York -- Copenhagen -- Los Angeles -- Tokyo -- Scale test
N2  - "The 1001 building forms in Siteless include structural parasites, chain-link towers, ball-bearing floors, corrugated corners, exponential balconies, radial facades, crawling frames, forensic housing - and other architectural ideas that may require construction techniques not yet developed and a relation to gravity not yet achieved. Siteless presents an open-ended compendium of visual ideas for the architectural imagination to draw from." "The forms, drawn freehand (to avoid software-specific shapes) but from a constant viewing angle, are presented twelve to a page, with no scale, order, or end to the series. After setting down 1001 forms in siteless conditions and embryonic stages, Blanciak takes one of the forms and performs a "scale test," showing what happens when one of these fantastic ideas is subjected to the actual constraints of a site in central Tokyo. The book ends by illustrating the potential of these shapes to morph into actual building proportions."--Jacket
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