| Description |
655 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf : illustrations (some color), plans ; 18 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Phylogenesis: foa's ark / Alejandro Zaera-Polo / Farshid Moussavi -- Who's afraid of formalism? / Sanford Kwinter -- Local knowledge / Mark Wigley -- Same difference / Detlef Mertins -- Towards a non-standard mode of production / Patrick Beaice / Bermard Cache -- Deleuze and the use of the genetic algorithm in architecture / Manuel De Landa -- On the wild side / Jeffrey Kipnis -- Phylogenesis and the tree of life / Sandra Knapp |
| Summary |
This book has been structured as a reflection on the work that FOA has produced during its first ten years of practice. As an organisation grown from a primarily speculative and academic milieu, these first ten years have been spent in the development of an attitude and the construction of a technical arsenal for its implementation. This has been explored through a series of competitions, speculative commissions, and lately some real projects, some of them already completed, others still under construction |
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The outcome of these years is seen not just as a series of experiments, defined by the specific conditions of a project, but as a consistent reservoir of architectural species to be proliferated, mutated and evolved in the years to come. With the spirit of a scientific classification, the genesis of the projects is identified as the evolution of a series of "phylums", actualised - and simultaneously virtualised - in their application to the specific conditions where the projects take place. The book also includes a compilation of texts from several critics who analyse "external" topics that relate to different aspects of FOA's discourse |
| Notes |
"This book was published in collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary Arts on the occasion of the exhibition 'Foreign Office Architects: Breeding Architecture', London, 29 November 2003-29 February 2004"--Colophon |
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Includes text by Alejandro Zaera-Polo and Farshid Moussavi |
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1 folded sheet at the back of the book |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Moussavi, Farshid
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Zaera, Alejandro.
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Moussavi, Farshid, 1965-
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Foreign Office Architects -- Catalogs.
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Foreign Office Architects.
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Cladistic analysis.
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Architectural design.
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Architectural practice.
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Architectural design -- Exhibitions.
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Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Designs and plans -- Exhibitions.
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Architecture, Modern -- 21st century -- Exhibitions.
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Architecture, Modern -- 21st century -- Designs and plans -- Exhibitions.
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Architectural firms -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions.
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Architecture, Modern -- 20th century.
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Architecture, Modern -- 21st century.
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Architectural firms.
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Architecture -- Philosophy.
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| Genre/Form |
Catalogs.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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Architectural drawings.
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| Author |
Zaera, Alejandro.
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Moussavi, Farshid
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Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, England)
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| LC no. |
00002595 |
| ISBN |
8495951479 |
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