內容簡介
這是一本不同於其它建築類書籍的作品，主旨在於提供一個思考架構及創意構成基礎。在書中介紹了 1001 種不同的建築型式，包括結構寄生 (structural parasites)、鏈結塔(chain-link towers)、滾珠軸承支撐樓面(ball-bearing floors)、波紋式角(corrugated corners)、指數式露台(exponential balconies)等多種建築概念，這些建築概念可能尚未完全成熟、必須等到建築工法再進一步發展才能實現，但是藉由這些概念的揭露，開始了建築設計上的無限可能，可以幫助建築師們擺脫既有的思考框架，更能發揮創造力。

為了呈現出這些創新的建築型式，書中包含了許多手繪的設計圖、擺脫電腦軟體有限圖形的限制。作者為了證明這些構想並非完全不可實行的，特別舉出一個例子，將這些創意建築型式重新放回實務的建築設計中，說明經過適當的調整及謹慎的執行，這些創新建築型式確實能被充份實現、展現絕佳效果。

書中並沒有大量的教條式規則，這也不是一本介紹成功案例的書籍；相反地，作者希望所有建築師可以暫時丟掉建案背景、施工方法、預算等等限制，而以建築本身為出發點為思考，再回頭尋求實務上的解決方法，這樣才能創造出最符合建築師原始想法的優秀作品。這也就是本書書名《Siteless》的由來：先放下已知的建案背景限制條件，讓設計回歸設計的初衷。

Some may call it the first manifesto of the twenty-first century, for it lays down a new way to think about architecture. Others may think of it as the last architectural treatise, for it provides a discursive container for ideas that would otherwise be lost. Whatever genre it belongs to, SITELESS is a new kind of architecture book that seems to have come out of nowhere. Its author, a young French architect practicing in Tokyo, admits he "didn't do this out of reverence toward architecture, but rather out of a profound boredom with the discip a sort of compulsive reaction." What would happen, he asks, if architects liberated their minds from the constraints of site, program, and budget? The result is a book that is saturated with forms, and as free of words as any architecture book the MIT Press has ever published.

The 1001 building forms in SITELESS include structural parasites, chain-link towers, ball-bearing floors, corrugated corners, exponential balconies, radial facades, crawling frames, forensic housing--and other architectural ideas that may require construction techniques not yet developed and a relation to gravity not yet achieved. SITELESS presents an open-ended compendium of visual ideas for the architectural imagination to draw from.

The forms, drawn freehand (to avoid software-specific shapes) but from a constant viewing angle, are presented twelve to a page, with no scale, order, or end to the series. After setting down 1001 forms in siteless conditions and embryonic stages, Blanciak takes one of the forms and performs a "scale test," showing what happens when one of these fantastic ideas is subjected to the actual constraints of a site in central Tokyo. The book ends by illustrating the potential of these shapes to morph into actual building proportions.