2G BAST documents the Toulouse-based architecture practice whose design methodology resists fixed formal systems, instead treating each project as an evolutionary process of superimposed logics, colliding structures, and layered facades.
About This Book
BAST operate at the edge of controlled complexity. Their architecture recalls the modernist language of assemblage and montage — but pushes further, stacking structural logics and facade layers until buildings begin to resemble something familiar yet subtly displaced. This monograph traces that process: how multiple design solutions are proposed simultaneously, how resemblance and difference are used as generative tools, and how the discipline of a clear structural principle prevents formal experimentation from collapsing into disorder. For architects and students interested in process-driven design and contemporary European practice, this is a precise record of how BAST think and build.
Key Features
- 160 pages of project documentation, drawings, and critical writing on BAST's experimental design process
- Authors: André Tavares and Jo Tailleau
- Published by Walther König
What You'll Discover
- How BAST's rejection of a fixed formal method produces architecture through an iterative, evolutionary design sequence
- The role of superimposed structural logics and facade layering as compositional strategies in their built work
- How the practice uses resemblance — things that look like something else without being that thing — as a generative formal principle
- Why a commanding structural concept is essential to holding together the complexity of their multi-logic assemblage approach
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 160
- Dimensions: 305 x 235mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783753302980
- Publisher: Walther König
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and design students drawn to process-based practice, European contemporary architecture, and the formal possibilities of structural assemblage and montage.