Farshid Moussavi

Architecture needs mechanisms that allow it to become connected to culture. It achieves this by continually capturing the forces that shape society as material to work with. Architecture's materiality...

Excerpts by Bernard Cache, Manuel de Landa, Sanford Kwinter, Farshid Moussavi, Detlef Mertins, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Sandra Knapp and Mark Wigley.

"The Function of Structure" explores the production of singular affectsthrough systems that relate form and content. This is an essential graphicmanual on structural systems and their capacity to prod...