{"title":"François Blanciak","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrançois Blanciak\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a compelling exploration of modern artistic landscapes, blending insightful commentary with experimental narratives. His works invite readers to engage deeply with contemporary culture, often challenging traditional perspectives on art and space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eImmersed in the realm of \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, Blanciak's writings celebrate the intersection of creativity and critical thought, appealing to those who appreciate nuanced examinations of how art shapes and reflects society.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"siteless-by-francois-blanciak-9780262026307","title":"SITELESS","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn attempt to free architecture from site and program constraints and to counter the profusion of ever bigger architecture books with ever smaller content. Some may call it the first manifesto of the twenty-first century, for it lays down a new way to think about architecture. Others may think of it as the last architectural treatise, for it provides a discursive container for ideas that would otherwise be lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhatever genre it belongs to, \u003cem\u003eSITELESS\u003c\/em\u003e is a new kind of architecture book that seems to have come out of nowhere. Its author, a young French architect practising in Tokyo, admits he \"didn't do this out of reverence toward architecture, but rather out of a profound boredom with the discipline, as a sort of compulsive reaction.\" What would happen if architects liberated their minds from the constraints of site, program, and budget? he asks. The result is a book that is saturated with forms, and as free of words as any architecture book the MIT Press has ever published.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 1001 building forms in \u003cem\u003eSITELESS\u003c\/em\u003e include structural parasites, chain link towers, ball bearing floors, corrugated corners, exponential balconies, radial facades, crawling frames, forensic housing—and other architectural ideas that may require construction techniques not yet developed and a relation to gravity not yet achieved. \u003cem\u003eSITELESS\u003c\/em\u003e presents an open-ended compendium of visual ideas for the architectural imagination to draw from.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe forms, drawn freehand (to avoid software-specific shapes) but from a constant viewing angle, are presented twelve to a page, with no scale, order, or end to the series. After setting down 1001 forms in siteless conditions and embryonic stages, 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 central Tokyo. The book ends by illustrating the potential of these shapes to morph into actual building proportions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47598278476012,"sku":"9780262026307","price":60.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8d1f7b4f076b64e912157661a9113b90.jpg?v=1778037963"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/francois-blanciak.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}