Form and Deformation

“This book discusses architectural forms and geometry.”

“Of course, we wanted to provoke something when we asserted that analyzing building plans alone could yield very valuable information and that the formalization of architecture presents specific and irreducible problems.”

“Our project experience, whatever it may be, requires us to consider that in every architecture there are, of course, forms that are intended to be achieved, but also forms that are accepted or discovered along the way.”

“An architect is not merely a spatializer, a faithful translator. An architect is also a technician who deals with forms and space; this is absolutely the most specific aspect of their profession.”