Folding Architecture: Spatial, Structural and Organizational Diagrams

by Sophia Vyzoviti

A relatively new trend in architecture, folding is a playful method that opens up the design process to spontaneity and surprise. Folding Architecture presents the results of research into the technique, which was carried out in The Netherlands by the architectural faculty at the TU in Delft. It is an enlightening and inspiring survey that is vividly illustrated and presents all of the much-discussed concepts, projects and buildings in which this process has been applied. And as the book implies the possibilities are endless. Compulsory reference material for any architect or student of architecture who wishes to design outside of mainstream. Sophia Vyzoviti is an architect and teaches design method at the TU in Delft.

Genres: Architecture, Design, Nonfiction

Paperback

First published February 1, 2004

Reviews

[Fairdkun · Rating 2 out of 5]

this book would be okay for any architecture student. it gives you an understanding of how an experimental class was taken on by professors + students.
but that's it. nothing more, nothing new. the folding experiments weren't explained as much as i want them to be. the artistic direction is questionable, although i found it okay... my girlfriend didn't. 'what the book is showing is how they rape a material... it breaks my heart to see paper treated this way', well, couldn't blame her for that opinion. the course is too easily categorize as absurd anyway.

[michelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

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really lovely and inspiring. evoked a sense of childlike wonder for me in a lot of ways. don’t remember the last time i folded something. cannot remember a thing abt the deleuzian aspects. i read it in my car in a gas station parking lot while very tired

[Alaa]

Folding Architecture: Spatial, Structural and Organizational Diagrams