’Form follows function.’ There has never been a more seductive dictum in the history of architecture. In this publication, internationally acclaimed architect, Farshid Moussavi, provides a provocative critique of the historically opposing relationship between function and form to reveal the contradiction at the heart of modernism. We need to move away from the definition of function as utility, she argues, to align it with how function is defined in mathematics, biology or music. Form, on the other hand, should be considered not only in the way buildings are produced, but also how they perform sensorially.
Author:Farshid Moussavi
Size: 17 x 22 cm
Pages: 520
Illustrations: Duotone
Cover: Flexibound
Publication date: October 2009 (Reprinting 2020)
ISBN: English 9788496954731
Price: 50€ / $59.95 USD/ £50
A comprehensively compiles a set of material systems, analysing ways in which they can be tessellated to produce novel forms.
Farshid Moussavi This book interrogates further the formfunction relationship of its projects. It focuses particularly on the history of drawing techniques of describing different concepts of function
Farshid Moussavi This book interrogates further the formfunction relationship of its projects. It focuses particularly on the history of drawing techniques of describing different concepts of function. All is shown through drawings that describe amongst other criteria the structural function [arrangement of activities or materials], the physical function [such as acoustics, traffic, lighting], the psychological function or the social function of built forms. During the 19th and most of the 20th century, discussions of style revolved around pure formalism or pure functionalism. Style, as the way of assembling forms, was trapped in producing consistency and sameness across architectural forms. This publication is the third in a series at the GSD focused at researching a contemporary idea of style in architecture. EBOOK EDITION
Farshid Moussavi Rigorous drawings of iconic projects dismantling the idea that ornament is applied to buildings as a discrete or non-essential entity.
Farshid Moussavi A graphic guide to ornaments of 20th century building envelopes. Rigorous drawings of iconic projects unveil the function of ornament as the agent for specific affects, dismantling the idea that ornament is applied to buildings as a discrete or non-essential entity. Each case exploits specific synergies between the exterior and the interior, constructing an internal order between ornament and material. These internal orders produce contemporary expressions whose affects are resilient in time. Buy Spanish edition EBOOK EDITION
