TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blanciak,François
ED  - M.I.T. Press
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)
N1  - --Hong Kong; --New York; --Copenhagen; --Los Angeles; --Tokyo; --Scale test
N2  - ..."The 1001 building forms in SITELESS include architectural ideas that may require construction techniques not yet developed and a relation to gravity not yet achieved. It 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 with no scale, order or end to the series. 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 a city. The book ends by illustrating the potential of these shapes to morph into actual building proportions."--Inside front cover
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0715/2007015858.html
ER  -