Together they started to turn Kaplický's genius into built form.
Built form has social consequences, and not always the ones that the city planner intended.
"The idea is to move directly from abstract documentation to built form".
Campbell becomes, in a sense, the sum of its built form plus its framed surroundings.
FOA are not the only young architects exploring such ideas, but they are among the first of their generation to convert the theorising into significant built form.
They help transform his strange visions into built form, both in his own design process and in presentations to his clients and the public.
Architects like Neutra regarded the city as an evolving topography in which landscape and successive layers of built form intersected over time.
This duality is a comparison between the city as built form ("ville") and as lived experience ("cité")—the "building" and "dwelling" of his title.
The most fully developed piece of architecture their office has produced thus far, the design extends into durably built form the conceptual elegance of the "alternative" architecture for which Diller and Scofidio are best known.
A comparison would be with Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum in Berlin, which deliberately represents in built form the complexities and violence of Jewish experience, but Adjaye seems to shudder when I suggest it.
But its key innovation, which lives on today, was its clear separation of private built form and public open space: buildings are shaded black, while streets, squares and the interiors of churches, markets and courtyards are left white.
