MOVE (Three Volumes) (Paperback)

by Ben van Berkel (Author), Caroline Bos (Author)

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Product Description
The innovative architecture office Van Berkel & Bos presents a major new collection of its projects, statements, research, and visual inspiration. 'Move' redefines typologies of organisational structures on all levels and presents a manifesto against Modernism that is still based on techniques of fragmentation and collage. The three volumes are presented in a box that adds to the high quality of this encyclopaedia of architectural ideas. Each book combines spectacular architectural presentations and texts into a specific theme: 'Imagination', 'Techniques','Effects'

From the Back Cover
Architects are going to be the fashion designers of the future, dressing events to come and holding up a mirror to the world. The re-thinking of public imagination, public space and public forces transforms architects into public scientists. Their imagination is informed as much by the semi-conscious preoccupations of collective vision, such as glamour, mediation, advertising and celebrity, as by the specifics of the discipline. Architecture must engage with the banal dreams of the contemporary world, and stop presenting its products as uncontaminated objects that say only: 'architecture... Time is on the architect's side. The invention of new, time-based techniques expands the imagination, explodes the hierarchy of the design process and encourages the input of different disciplines, enabling the bottom-up thinking of material organisation to be combined with the top-down thinking of virtual organisation. ' The architectural practice is being re-organised as a virtual studio; a network of superstars. Plug-in professionalism goes hand in hand with the will to invent. To redefine organisational structures means that if the information on which a building is based possesses proportions that work and it sounds right, it can take any form; blob or box - it doesn't matter anymore. The best effects that architecture can produce now are proliferating and moving, effects that are unfolding, anticipatory, unexpected, climactic, cinematic, time-related, non-linear, surprising, mysterious, compelling and engaging.

MOVE examines the architect's new role in an environment of technological, public and economic change. The redefinition of organisational structures is the common thread running through the three books.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 800 pages
• Publisher: Goose Press, Netherlands (June 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9076517010
• ISBN-13: 978-9076517018
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,136,448 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Definitely Sustainable Reading, May 15, 2000

By	"tazzy_" (Singapore) - See all my reviews

It is a must read! I was initially attracted to the graphics in the book, but after reading one the 3 volumes-Effects, which touches on the 2 types of effects: Orientable and Nonorientable, the book covers some of the projects and explains the underlying concepts behind the works. I would strongly recommend students of architecture to read up on the 3 Volumes because it is really useful in their studies as it helps them to conceptualise thinkings.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It tells us how to read contemporary situation., November 18, 2003

By	KIM ZYI YONG "delicraft" (SEOUL, Republic of Korea) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This breath-taking 3-volume book MOVE is briefly about how we can produce material effects through imagination by using new techniques. Ben van Berkel and his critical eyes Caroline Bos show us this with brief descriptions and variety of projects. They propose generative diagrams to analyze and translate current complex situation particularily in urban condition. To do this, they seem to stress on learning/accepting new techniques like computational skills. However they do not direct us to be mad about it. The most important thing is what we can think and find throughout the process of materialisation, not skills. I can say all the images in MOVE was really fascinating when it was first published and still is in a way. Right now what is in MOVE seems to be little bit old to some folks, but it still effective to those who have just seen the new way of design technique.