- Hardcover: 656 pages
- Publisher: Actar; illustrated edition edition (Nov 1 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 8495951479
- ISBN-13: 978-8495951472
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 12.7 x 4.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 771 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #201,026 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Description: Phylogenesis--wait, we'll explain the title soon--is structured as a reflection on the work that Foreign Office Architects (FOA) has produced during its first 10 years of practice. With its genesis as a primarily speculative and academic endeavor, FOA has recently expended much energy in the development of a technical arsenal for implementing real projects. Such explorations have been undertaken through a series of competitions, speculative commissions, and lately some real projects, some of them already completed, others still under construction. 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 proliferate, mutated, and evolved in the near future. With the spirit of a scientific classification, the genesis of the projects is here identified as the evolution of a series of "phylums," actualized--and simultaneously virtualized--in their application to the specific conditions where the projects take place. Phylogenesis also includes an FOA-curated compilation of previously published texts from several critics who analyze "external" topics that relate to different aspects of the firm's discourse.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Encyclopedia of FOA
May 5 2004
Format:Hardcover
Very good book with an interesting structure/classification system for their projects. Projects are well described in text and graphics, and the essays that are inserted between 'sections' add an interesting perspective towards architecture and artistic/cultural theory in contemporary practice from several authors viewpoints, not just the firms. This is FOA's S,M,L,XL (with less bulk) with all projects (to date) presented and explained in detail.
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21 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Encyclopedia of FOA
May 5 2004
Format:Hardcover
Very good book with an interesting structure/classification system for their projects. Projects are well described in text and graphics, and the essays that are inserted between 'sections' add an interesting perspective towards architecture and artistic/cultural theory in contemporary practice from several authors viewpoints, not just the firms. This is FOA's S,M,L,XL (with less bulk) with all projects (to date) presented and explained in detail.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Great but could be better
April 26 2007
Format:Hardcover
The Best: The proyect, the inteligent calisification, the graphics, the perspectives, the images of the proyects (amazing), the view and of course, the architecture.
The Worst: The size of the plans inside the book, and the information on it about planimetric and detail construction.
Conlucion: Buy it... is really good book
The Worst: The size of the plans inside the book, and the information on it about planimetric and detail construction.
Conlucion: Buy it... is really good book
Great book
Dec 29 2010
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Nice book to have for inspiration. Lots of great images and graphics inside. The only thing was that it took about two months to get delivered to me. Other than that, its a good book.
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