Siteless: 1001 Building Forms Paperback – Illustrated, February 29, 2008

An architecture professor recommended this book years ago, but said that the author's love of Japan should be 'taken with a grain of salt'. However, Japan (Tokyo) is only the fourth of four sections. The first section is China (Hong Kong), the second section is England (London), and the third section is the Netherlands (Brussels). But, these names are deceptive. It is really a book of original illustrations, not history or lore. And in this way it marvelously succeeds.I love the way the miniature illustrations seem to permute, almost imperceptibly. Almost no one has been so successful with permutation. This effect has even inspired some of my own philosophical ideas, about systems and natures. It is a vastly technological book, in a very estimated sense. Almost nothing else has been so inspiring about the flight of ideas. If there is any danger, it is that this book cannot be written again. It's that precocious.

Excellent book...helps to open up the imagination to numerous possibilities on possible building forms but thinking about it critically these forms could be anything you want...another marginal benefit this book conveys is shade giving depth/mass to the surfaces and volume of each object

I received this book less than an hour ago and it blew my mind. I am an artist not an architect. Each little drawing is a wonderful perspective study. I will be using this book to copy, explore, and extend these forms. The only thing the drawings are missing are shadows, but I think this omission was on purpose to keep these forms truly siteless in the architectural sense.

No hay teoría explicativa que acompañe los gráficos

1001 kinds of masses are enough to make new ideas for architectural designHowever, It would be better to show more separated each mass of each one massto show the composition relation of them

bought mine during the summer. definitely worth to go through each form and try to develop a mini project out of that.The content in this book is extremely helpful in order to generate the initial massing during the design process. I'd definitely recommend this book for architecture students out there to check out this book.

I am an architecture student and whenever I get stuck on a project, I flip through this book to get some inspiration.

Interesting. I like it

Ho acquistato il libro cartaceo pensando che i 21 euro di spesa fossero giustificati dall’uso di carta patinata e alta definizione delle immagini che costituiscono il nucleo tematico di questo volume. Le immagini sono piccole e stampate su carta lucida. Considerando che l’intero libro è scaricabile gratuitamente da internet anche se con immagini a non alta definizione, direi che 21 euro per questa versione cartacea è troppo. Il volumetto in sé è interessante.

A very good book! It is very helpful to my study and highly recommended

I love this book. I highly recommend it.

It's a great book for forms. The author has enlisted the various possiblites that a building could take.. A good book for a theoretical approach towards architecture.

SImple libro, un pequeño prólogo y de ahí solo figuras abstractas fáciles de comprender como edificios. Solo eso, pero bien.