The Function of Style

Moussavi has completed her first U.S. She was previously co-founder of the London-based Foreign Office Architects (FOA). . Farshid Moussavi is an internationally acclaimed architect and Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. commission, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland (2012), its installation at the 13th Architecture Biennale in Venice (2012), and The Victoria Beckham Flagship Store in London (2014)

Rather she presents project after project, over 600 pages, in an analytical way – it should be said this is a book for professionals and students. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review“If you think of style as being about external appearance, as something that can be added and taken away, Moussavi does not. For Moussavi, ‘the challenge for architects today … is to assemble a coherent whole with a new cluster of affects that encourages people to react creatively'”.--Architectural Review"the book i

The Function of Style presents the architectural landscape as an intricate web in which individual buildings are the product of ideas which have been appropriated from other buildings designed for the different activities of everyday life, ideas which are varied to produce singular buildings that are related to one another but also different. Moussavi argues that, by embracing everyday life as a raw material, architects can change the conventions of how buildings are assembled, to ground style, and the aesthetic experience of buildings, in the micro-politics of the everyday. The third volume in Moussavi’s ‘Function’ series, The Function of Style provides an updated approach to style which can be used as an invaluable and highly productive tool by architects today.Assistant Editors: Marco Ciancarella, Jonathan A. This network of connections is illustrated on the cover of this book (and in more detail inside). Does this immense diversity reflect a lack of common purpose? In this book, acclaimed architect and theorist Farshid Moussavi argues that this diversity should not be mistaken for an eclecticism that is driven by external forces. What is the function of style today? If the 1970s were defined by Postmodernism and the 1980s by Deconstruction, how do we characterize the architecture of the 1990s to the present? Some built forms transmit affects of curvilinearity, others of crystallinity; some tr

Well defined and I love every single part of it Shadi I've received this gorgeous book today, exactly what I was expected. Well defined and I love every single part of itthe colour coding, pictures, texts all are thoughtfully managed.When I read through the book I feel like Farshid is sitting in front of me and explaining it to me which is amazing.To me it has g. "dude, if you are an architect or architecture student" according to Dimitri. dude, if you are an architect or architecture student, this book is a masterpiece. This and Function of Form and the soon to print second edition of Function of Ornament are must have's.. Amazing Service and price Great book, even greater price.