Investigations in Collective Form

Authors

Fumihiko Maki

Contributors

School of Architecture, Washington University

Files

Description

Investigations in Collection Form by Fumihiko Maki. A Spacial Publication. Number 2. The School of Architecture, Washington University, St. Louis, June 1964.

Professor Maki was a member of the faculty of the School of Architecture at Washington University from 1956 to 1963. During this time, much of the research contained in this book was initiated.

From the Introduction: In the spring of 1960, Masato Ohtaka and I published an article called "Group-Form" in the first issue of "Metabolism." Since then, the idea has further been developed and become presently "Collective Form." The study on "Linkage" followed in collaboration with Jerry Goldberg.

Methodological investigation on collective forms has seldom been done until very recently. What is needed is not just observation and critical comment, but utilization of the observation to develop strategic tools in making our physical environment.

Together with illustrative works, these papers are intended to discuss why, what, and how we should design. These are open-ended discussions, to be polemical rather than definitive. They represent, however, only the beginning of vast inquiry on the collective form.

Document Type

Book

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7936/3r0q-4715

Publication Date

1964

Publisher

The School of Architecture, Washington University

City

Saint Louis (Mo.)

Comments

Print copy available through library catalog at https://spokane.wustl.edu:443/record=b1288977~S2

Recommended Citation

Maki, Fumihiko, "Investigations in Collective Form" (1964). Books and Monographs. 61.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/books/61