TEXTING ARCHITECTS

Q7 FORM IS ?

We are texting with 100 prominent architects – sending them SMSes. The architects are out of context, so are their sentences. They are replying, but at the same time, they are unaware of the action. If they have something to say, they will write back. Consistency is in the spectrum.

SPECTRUM OF ARCHITECTS

FORM IS ?

Li Xiadong

The form is plain, but the conversation it generates is very rich, providing a multitude of views at each step, a contemporary interpretation of the tradition.

Neri Oxman

In much of Otto's work, specifically in his early experiments from the 50's, types of structures are systematically classified and form is the result of load application.

Benjamin Dillenburger

A unique language of form is developed that transcends rationality and celebrates spatial expression: a digital exuberance.

HWKN

Since visual form is part of an integrate strategy the visual expression has longevity and will instantly become part of the local fabric.

Robert Venturi

"appropriate designs for one material would not be appropriate for another material."" But the faqade of Eero Saarinen's dormitory at the University of Pennsylvania includes among its materials and structure vine covered gade,,brick wall, and steel grille yet the curving profile of its form is continuous."

Sverre Fehn

Their form is absolutely free, not given by their relation to a road, as our towns are.

COBE

In the beginning, form is this small evolutionary process where you have fifteen sketches and there's no favourite, but they start to speak to each other.

Lacaton Vassal

Ultimately, the form is just a consequence.

Johnston Marklee

our interest in form is driven by the specificity of the way we address the context of a project.

David Chipperfield

The form is more about the experience of the plan and the relationship to the park.

Zaha Hadid

with products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.

Anne Holtrop

So the form is basically the result of digging in the sand.

And because the form is so sculptural, I thought the light would always hit it differently and let you see different colours in the material, and luckily that turned out to be the case.

So the starting position of the form is independent of architecture.

RCR

the system that vertebrates and stitches the structure of the object 26 so, form is not image?

Steven Holl

The form is much easier than ever.

Fake Industries AA

To intentionally copy entails a reformulation of architectural imagination: it allows for a radical renunciation of form making—since form is defined a priori—to focus on architectural knowledge yet to be discovered.

Sam Jacob

In an era whose greatest art form is the idea of vintage, we have a thousand words for nostalgia.

Rafael Moneo

The volumes which ultimately take shape as buildings are all controlled by a strict, watchful gaze, further acknowledgement in his work of the extent to which the architectural form is subject to the same control mechanisms as the other visual arts.

This way of controlling the form is also found in smaller scale works such as the architect's studio on Joachimstrasse Campus in Berlin (2013), where the voids are used to announce the building's life, and indeed should now be referred to as veritable visual accents.

Made In

Today, form is generally interpreted as an analogy or as an independent architectural figure.

Greg Lynn

Architectural form is conventionally conceived in a dimensional space of idealized stasis, defined by Cartesian fixed point coordinates.

For example, in what is called "inverse kinematic" animation, the motion and shape of a form is defined by multiple interacting vectors that unfold in time perpetually and openly.

Although form is thought in series and motion in these examples, movement is something that is added back to the object by the viewer.

Patrick Schumacher

My comprehensive theory of architecture the theory of architectural autopoiesis1 identifies the distinction of form and function as the lead distinction of architecture, whereby form is the discipline's internal reference, i.e. our immediate responsibility, and function is the discipline's external reference, i.e. our ultimate responsibility to society mediated via our production of forms.

Forensic Architecture

Rather, its form is continuously undergoing transformations and in these transformations it registers external influences.

Pier Vittorio Aureli

The term absolute is intended to stress, as much as possible, the individuality of the architectural form when this form is confronted with the environment in which it is conceived and constructed.

The very condition of architectural form is to separate and to be separated.

In each case I emphasize how the project of a specific architectural form is at once an act of radical autonomy from and radical engagement with the forces that characterized the urbanization of cities.

The making of form is thus the real and effective necessary program of architecture.

Peter Eisenmann

In this case, form is usually understood through a series of registrations designed to recall a more simple geometric condition.

Here, form is understood as a series of fragments signs without meaning dependent upon, and without reference to, a more basic condition.

The latter, by itself, assumes a basic condition of fragmentation and multiplicity from which the resultant form is a state of simplification.

Team Mazzanti

The building is conceived as a visible structure, a landmark building, representing a symbol of the neighbourhood, as a primary element of the area, which by its form is different from the context that surrounds it, with no context and urban planning this will become an agglutinating element of pride for the community.