François Blanciak
A new book by architect François Blanciak suggests clever drawings as "a creative alternative to critical academic literature."
Imagine Learning from Las Vegas as illustrated by Chris Ware, and you’ll get a sense of François Blanciak’s marvelously inventive new book, Siteless: 1001 Building Forms (The MIT Press, 2008).
Blanciak, a French architect who has worked alongside Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, and the Danish provocateur Bjarke Ingels, now lives in Japan, where he is a research fellow at the University of Tokyo. In Siteless, his first book, he displays an equal gift for playfulness and rigor, drawing by hand 1,001 building types—fanciful and sometimes impossible—with no thought paid to site, program, or budget.
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Great post Paul!
I’ve been planning to use this book for a future studio as a short-circuiting device. I will give each student with one of these forms on the first day. Then they’ll have to figure out a site, a program, and how to build the damn thing(!).
Instead of wasting 3/4 of the semester figuring out a form, they can refocus that effort into making it actually work (or perhaps learn that crazy forms are a real pain to implement).
PS — Why not title the post “SiteLESS”? Seems appropriate.