{"product_id":"siteless-francois-blanciak-9780262026307","title":"Siteless: 1001 Building Forms","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn attempt to free architecture from site and program constraints and to counter the profusion of ever bigger architecture books with ever smaller content.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome 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, \u003ci\u003eSITELESS\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 1001 building forms in \u003ci\u003eSITELESS\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eSITELESS\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Francois Blanciak\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262026309\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262026307\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.08h x 5.74w x 0.41d","brand":"Francois Blanciak","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048617701631,"sku":"9780262026307","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b76c83db-929f-4eae-8b76-3d92b0ce2007.jpg?v=1684996817","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/siteless-francois-blanciak-9780262026307","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}