Main entry:

Moussavi, Farshid, 1965-

Title & Author:

The function of form / Farshid Moussavi ; edited with Daniel López [and others].

Publication:

Barcelona ; New York : Actar ; [Cambridge, Mass.] : Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, ©2009.

Description:

515 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
The function of form -- Afterword -- Glossary -- Matrix -- Systems: Grids and frames : One way frames ; Two way frames ; Diagrid ; Grid-slab frame ; Double-layer grid -- Vaults : Barrel vault ; Cross vault ; Complex rib vault ; Fan vault ; Curved rib vault ; Cellular vault -- Domes : Surface dome ; Ribbed dome ; Stacked arch dome ; Yazdi-Bandi dome ; Kar-Bandi dome ; Kaseh-Sazi dome ; Muqarnas dome -- Folded plates : Folded plate ; Folded plate and truss -- Shells : Conical shell ; Umbrella column shell ; Hyper curved shell -- Tensile membranes : Parallel cable tensile membrane ; Radical cable tensile membrane -- Pneumatic membranes : Air supported pneumatic membrane ; Inflated beam pneumatic membrane.

Summary:

"The function of form" explores the production of singular affects through systems that relate form and content. This is an essential graphic manual on structural systems and their capacity to produce a variety of forms. Extracting their base geometric unit, a wide range of historical projects from the Medieval to the present are used as systems to proliferate different forms. The book distinguishes tessellation from modulation as a type of flexible system for producing complex repetition through diverse parts. The research presented aims to move architectural experiments away from 'mechanistic' notions of systems for re-producing forms, to 'machinic' notions of systems that determine how parts of an architectural problem interrelate and multiply. This open nature of transversal systems leads to new actualized forms and novel affects.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
TOC

ISBN:

9788496954731
8496954730

Subject:

Architectural design.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture Details.
Design architectural.
Architecture Détails.
Architecture and Planning.
Arquitectura Filosofía
Architektur
Bauform
Bauwerk
Tragwerk
Arkitektur.
Arkitekturdetaljer.

Added entries:

López, Daniel (López Pérez)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266697
Call No.: BIB 198675
Status: Available