 Impressive and different
This is a good book that incorporates a very different and interesting way of presenting ones work. I would recommend this book to anyone that is interested in architecture or design.
Better than most, but not life changing...
A fun, unique and clearly written presentation of BIG's portfolio and do-everything-solve-everything philosophy. I commend BIG for laying off the scholarly vocabulary too--very refreshing. The graphic novel style and general optimism is a breath of fresh air in a discipline rife with cynics.
Its major flaw is one endemic to the "literature" of architecture: lots of showboating, which occasionally undermines the sincerity of the ideas.
If their next book builds off of this, I look forward to reading it...
 Evolutionary Architecture
A fascinating look at architecture as an evolving organism reacting to need, environment, cooperative communication, indivuality ... not necessarily in that order.
I'm buying a second copy for my niece who's a design student.
The multiple layers of work (and life)
A graphic novel.
A series of projects.
The tale of a young team.
The meaning of cities in the third millenium.
There are a lot of enjoyful reading levels in this book.
Choose your level, and think about complexity.
Boom, Slam, Pow!!!
Where do I start?? Never have I read an architecture book able to document all the way from the interview with the client to the creative process to the outcome of a project as well as BIG has done in this book! I don't think there could have been a better way to capture such ACTION PACKED architecture than with the comic book format, it keept me on the edge of me seat, making it almost impossible to put the book down as soon as it reached my hands! Beware: once you experience architecture this way, everything else might seem boring and insipid!
BIG is the creative, witty, positive, humoristic side of architecture! Very refreshing in a context of stubborn, self-righteous, repugnant architects!
Thank you BIG!
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