Supersurfaces: Folding as a Form Generation Method in Architecture
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Format: Book
Pages: 144
Publisher: BIS
Date Published: Jul 2006
Stock Code: 58422
Binding: Paperback
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In this long-awaited follow-up to the best seller Folding Architecture, Sofia Vyzoviti continues to expand her unique design method which uses folding as a playful means to open up the design process to spontaneity and surprise. This is a funny and inspiring pocket-sized book for design students and professionals who are keen to experiment. It is applicable not only to architecture but many aspects of design.
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Reviewed by Jan-Carlos Kucharek, Assistant Editor, RIBA Journal
The story goes that Frank Gehry crumpled up one of his cigarette packets, tossed it over to one of his visualisers, and the Bilbao Guggenheim was conceived. True or not, inspiration can be found anywhere, and in Vyzoviti’s little book there’s 140 pages of it, all taking two-dimensional materials and by crumpling, cutting and folding them, realising three. This is a back to basics approach to form generation using paper, plastic and foam, and the brainpower of the author’s students. Some are novel but pointless, some seem influenced by existing forms and structures and hence derivative; but some, out of iteration or sheer repetition, show the potential to act as a primer and release unseen architectures.
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