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Formgiving by BIG Architects
29 Nov 2020
Formgiving Book by BIG Architects
Giving form to the future
BIG releases the latest installment of its taschen trilogy:
Formgiving. An architectural future history

Images by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group
BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group?s third Taschen book, Formgiving. An Architectural Future History, takes readers on a chronological journey across time and space through a collection of exclusive essays, a selection of BIG projects from the last decade, planetary proposals, and a glimpse of Masterplanet.
BIG?s trilogy with Taschen began with the architectural graphic novel Yes is More, followed by a round-up of adaptive architecture in Hot to Cold, and now continues with Formgiving. An Architectural Future History. Rooted in the Danish word for ?design?, ?formgivning? literally means to give form to that which has not yet taken shape. In other words, to give form to the future. The 700+ page catalogue debuts one year after its namesake exhibition opened to the public at the Danish Architecture Centre in Copenhagen, which welcomed over 85,000 visitors. Formgiving also includes award-winning photography by Iwan Baan, Laurian Ghinitoiu, Rasmus Hjortshøj, and others, along with imagery of 20 LEGO master-builder models of BIG?s work.

Presented in a logarithmic timeline, Formgiving spans from the dawn of time with the Big Bang and stretches into the ...