André Tavares and Diogo Seixas Lopes (eds.)

The Form of Form

Lisbon Architecture Triennale

What is architectural form? What does architectural form mean? And why is it so significant today? Despite the historical significance of form in architecture, the subject is frequently undervalued in debate. The publication The Form of Form examines a variety of ideas regarding form, not only through aesthetic and technological approaches, but also from social and political points of view.

The Form of Form is the official publication of the same-named 4th Lisbon Architecture Triennale. The content of the book underlines the cultural and technical relevance of architecture within society. It aims to foster new thoughts as we reach the dawn of a rapidly changing society driven by fast access to information.

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.

What is architectural form? What does architectural form mean? And why is it so significant today? Despite the historical significance of form in architecture, the subject is frequently undervalued in debate. The publication The Form of Form examines a variety of ideas regarding form, not only through aesthetic and technological approaches, but also from social and political points of view.

The Form of Form is the official publication of the same-named 4th Lisbon Architecture Triennale. The content of the book underlines the cultural and technical relevance of architecture within society. It aims to foster new thoughts as we reach the dawn of a rapidly changing society driven by fast access to information.

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.

Edited by André Tavares and Diogo Seixas Lopes

Design: João Faria/Drop

21,6 x 26,2 cm, 8 ½ x 10 ¼ in

228 pages, 230 illustrations

paperback

2016, 978-3-03778-504-1, English
CHF 45.00

Andre Tavares

André Tavares, born in 1976, is an architect and runs Dafne Editora, a small architectural publishing house in Porto. He writes regularly and is the author of several books on the relation between architectural culture and the public sphere. He often addresses the international circulation of knowledge among Portuguese-speaking architects. He has been appointed, with Diogo Seixas Lopes, as chief-curator for the 2016 Lisbon Architecture Triennale.

Diogo Seixas Lopes

Diogo Seixas Lopes (1972–2016) obtained his degree in architecture at the Technical University of Lisbon and also holds a PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich. He has been a guest professor at the University of Coimbra and Carleton University in Ottawa and was deputy director of the Jornal Arquitectos magazine.