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Phylogenesis foa's ark: foreign office architects
	Authors: Bernard Cache, Manuel De Landa, Sandra Knapp, Sanford Kwinter, Detlef Mertins, Mark Wigley Creators: Farshid Moussavi, Alejandro Zaera-polo, Foa Publisher: Actar Category: Book Buy New: $49.95 New (5) Used (4) from $31.52 Rating: 2 reviews Sales Rank: 45348 Media: Hardcover Pages: 600 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7 Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5 x 1.8 ISBN: 8495951479 Dewey Decimal Number: 720 EAN: 9788495951472 ASIN: 8495951479 Publication Date: March 2, 2004 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours


Editorial Reviews: Product Description Description: Phylogenesis--wait, we'll explain the title soon--is structured as a reflection on the work that Foreign Office Architects (FOA) has produced during its first 10 years of practice. With its genesis as a primarily speculative and academic endeavor, FOA has recently expended much energy in the development of a technical arsenal for implementing real projects. Such explorations have been undertaken through a series of competitions, speculative commissions, and lately some real projects, some of them already completed, others still under construction. The outcome of these years is seen not just as a series of experiments, defined by the specific conditions of a project, but as a consistent reservoir of architectural species to be proliferate, mutated, and evolved in the near future. With the spirit of a scientific classification, the genesis of the projects is here identified as the evolution of a series of "phylums," actualized--and simultaneously virtualized--in their application to the specific conditions where the projects take place. Phylogenesis also includes an FOA-curated compilation of previously published texts from several critics who analyze "external" topics that relate to different aspects of the firm's discourse.