Phylogenesis
Subtitle: foa's ark
By: Foreign Office Architects
Contributors: Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, England)
Publisher: Actar
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Barcelona
Language: eng
Number of pages: 655
Subjects: Organic architecture; Architectural firms; Modern Architecture; Foreign Office Architects
Other titles: foa's ark
Notes: " ... 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.
Table of contents: title: Phylogenesis: foa's ark / Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Farshid Moussav (the firm's directing architects); title: Who's afraid of formalism? / Sanford Kwinter; title: Local knowledge / Mark Wigley; title: Same difference / Detlef Mertins; title: Towards a non-standard mode of production / Patrick Beaice, Bermard Cache; title: Deleuze and the use of the genetic algorithm in architecture / Manuel De Landa; title: On the wild side / Jeffrey Kipnis; title: Phylogenesis and the tree of life / Sandra Knapp.