MORPHOSIS

Description

Morphosis, the American architects’ office founded in 1972 by Jim Stafford and Tom Mayne (Pritzker prize in 2005), has taken part in numerous international competitions, notably for the Olympic Village in New York in 2012.
The catalogue presents the exhibition and its staging, a section featuring 20 projects (completed, on the drawing board or presented at competitions), accompanied by 3D photographs and images, an interview with Thom Mayne by Frédéric Migayrou, and a translation of one of his founding texts, “Connected isolation”.
Frédéric Migayrou shows the work of Morphosis while making a semantic analysis of the entire corpus of texts that accompany it with the help of two search and word-processing software, Tropes and Zoom, which highlight the principal themes and concepts that underpin the agency’s work. This analysis is presented in the form of a RD graph made up of spheres whose size is proportionate to the number of appearances of the theme studied, and with links showing the interconnections between these ideas.

208 pages / 23,50 x 28 cm