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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