AWC 13 – BOXES FOR AMERICA

This book shows the 13th incarnation of Architecture Without Content. Architecture Without Content started as research on the Big Box in 2011. The idea being that the architecture was reducible to its very perimeter, where the economy of the envelope determined the success of the building. From the start, the studios have been interested in an argument for scale, turning even the most mundane of gestures into monumental presence. A big box transforms the territory it inhabits, despite a complete ignorance towards its immediate surroundings. If one considers the Architecture of the United States, the Big Box is undoubtedly part of its DNA.