Foreign Office Architects (FOA)
And this week, next Friday the Iaac, Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia, presents a lecture by Farshid Moussavi, during Lecture Series 2010/11.
Where: IAAC,C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona.
Date: Friday the 13th of May
Time: 19.30pm- 21.00pm
Title: Farshid Moussavi: "Form and Ornament"
BOOK: "The Function of Form"
In The Function of Form, Farshid Moussavi, provides a provocative critique of the historically opposing relationship between function and form to reveal the contradiction at the heart of modernism. We need to move away from the definition of function as utility, she argues, to align it with how function is defined in mathematics, biology or music. Form, on the other hand, should be considered not only in the way buildings are produced, but also how they perform sensorially. Function and form, considered together in architecture, stand in opposition to the dualism which defined our approach to the built environment throughout the twentieth century. This book provides a thought-provoking account of the challenges facing the 21st century built environment, and an enlivened awareness of the wider possibilities of architectural form.
Autor: Farshid Moussavi. Daniel Lopez, Garrick Ambrose, Ben Fortunato, Ryan Ludwig, Ahmadreza Schricker
Language / ISBN: English [978-84-96954-73-1] Available
Cover: Hard Plastic / Illustrations:Duotone
Size: 17 x 22 cm. / Page Number: 520
Published by: ACTAR , Harvard Graduate School of Design
Price: International 35.00 €
Spain/Portugal 35.00 €
USA 39.95 $
