Architecture without content /
Geers, Kersten,1975-editor.
Columbia University.Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.
Università della Svizzera italiana.Accademia di architettura.
Technische Universität Graz.Institut für Gebäudelehre.
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne.Faculté de l'environnement naturel, architectural et construit.
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne.
Title from back cover of half sleeve.
Limited edition of 1000 copies.
This set of five volumes collects the set of studio reports is a re-edition of the original booklets, made to conclude each of the studios which held between 2011 and 2013 at GSAPP Columbia University, Accademia di architettura Università della Svizzera italiana, Institut für Gebäudelehre Fakultät für Architektur Technische Universität Graz, ENAC Faculté de l'environnement naturel, architectural et construit and EPFL École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne.
Architecture without content' is architecture reduced to its very perimeter. Only the economy of the envelope determines the success of the building. Its radical frugality does not make it less critical. Economy of means is the weapon of choice to express its ideology.
1. The big box / 13 GSAPP Columbia University, 2011 -- 2. Conteporary monuments / Accademia di architettura Università della Svizzera italiana, 2011 -- 3. The urban paradox / TU Graz, 2012 -- 4. Necessary architecture / GSAPP Columbia University, 2013 -- 5. Places of accumulation / ENAC and EPFL, 2013.