Architecture without content
By: edited by Kersten Geers, Andrea Zanderigo [and 9 others]
Publisher: Bedford Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781907414411; 9781907414428; 9781907414435; 9781907414442; 9781907414459; 9781907414466
Subjects: Modern Architecture; Designs and plans; City planning; Architecture; Study and teaching
Notes: Limited edition of 1000 copies.

This 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."--Half sleeve.
Table of contents: title: 1. The Big Box / GSAPP Columbia University, 2011; title: 2. Contemporary Monuments / Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio, 2011; title: 3. The Urban Paradox / TU Graz, 2012; title: 4. Necessary Architecture / GSAPP Columbia University, 2013; title: 5. Places of Accumulation / FORM, ENAC, EPFL, 2013.