Through a series of competitions, speculative commissions, and built work, FOA's first monograph is structured to reflect the development of their specific attitude and as a compendium of the technical arsenal that they use to within their practice. The resultant body of work is not simply a series of experiments, but is a consistent reservoir of architectural species that will continue to proliferate, mutate, and evolve in the coming years. With the spirit of scientific classification, the genesis of an architectural project is identified within a series of phylum, actualized and simultaneously virtualized, in their specific application to the unique conditions of a project's location. Phylogenesis also includes a collection of texts from several critics who investigate related topics that touch upon different aspects of FOA's discourse.

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This book has been structured as a reflection on the work that FOA has produced during its first ten years of practice which have been spent in the development of an attitude and the construction of a technical arsenal for its implementation, through a series of competitions, speculative commissions, and lately some real projects. The outcome of these years is seen not just as a series of experiments, but as a consistent reservoir of architectural species to be proliferated, mutated and evolved in the years to come. With the spirit of a scientific classification, the genesis of the projects is identified as the evolution of a series of "phylums", actualised-and simultaneously virtualised-in their application to the specific conditions where the projects take place. The book also includes a compilation of texts from several critics who analyse "external" topics that relate to different aspects of FOA's discourse.