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What is architectural form? What does architectural form mean? And why is it so significant today? Well, from our perspective, architecture is a visual construct with a full field of responsibilities and hidden values. Even before we think about architecture as a means of design, architecture is a type of knowledge. After all the tensions and frictions that happen during the physical and social transformations of our cities and landscapes, when all the fuss is over, and the different agents who contributed to change have left the field of play, what is left is a built form. Citizens live among forms; architectural forms have endured from the past and they will populate the future.

Architects transform the world with architecture, and regardless of the perspective adopted in discussing those transformations it all comes down to the forms the architects are able to produce or preserve. Despite the historical significance of form in architecture, the subject is frequently ignored in architectural debate.

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Softcover, 32 x 22 cm, 228 pages

English edition

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