SITELESS

Discover the groundbreaking architecture book that challenges conventional perspectives! 'SITELESS' is more than just a beautiful trade paperback; it represents a significant shift in architectural thinking. Published in 2008 by RANDOM HOUSE US, this 128-page masterpiece dares to liberate architects from the traditional constraints of site, program, and budget. Authored by a visionary French architect based in Tokyo, this work emerges from a place of intellectual boredom, inspiring architects to rethink what is possible in their designs. The book is saturated with over 1001 unique building forms—such as structural parasites, chain link towers, and exponential balconies—that will ignite fresh ideas in both students and professionals in the architectural field. Perfect for those seeking innovative architectural inspiration, 'SITELESS' serves as a discursive container for revolutionary concepts that push the boundaries of creativity. And with FREE shipping, it's easier than ever to enhance your architectural library with this seminal work. While combined shipping for other products isn't available with this item, rest assured each order is shipped with care. Get ready to transform your approach to architecture with 'SITELESS,' where imagination knows no bounds!

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780262026307
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2008
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Pages: 128


Description:
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.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 p

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