Group Form is an architectural practice based in Athens, Greece. The concept of ‘Group Form’ encapsulates a design philosophy influenced by Fumihiko Maki’s manifesto on Collective Form, who was a major member of the Metabolist Movement. This principle suggests that the form of the group transcends the composition of individual parts, fostering a dynamic, articulated system that is not a static, rigid object but an adaptive, living structure. As in biology, where the cells have shorter life cycles than the organism itself, their approach is to design forms that are open ended, relevant within today’s globally dynamic cultural ecosystem of individual and collective expression.
Essential in the visual indentity we designed is TP Entopia, conceived as the typographic core of Group Form, that is not merely a typeface; it is a procedural framework. It pays homage to Constantinos Doxiadis’s urban theories, where the pragmatic vernacular of polykatoikia converges. This defining typology of contemporary Athens stands as an architectural paradox: both an expression of bottom-up growth and an imprint of modernist rationalism.
Born from the ideological and aesthetic crosscurrents that shaped 20th-century architecture, TP Entopia operates in the liminal space between the systematic and the organic, the absolute and the relative. Referencing the metabolist vision of the city as a living, evolving organism, its rigid grid dissolves into a dynamic body of adaptable units. TP Entopia’s grid dimensions are derived from a Fibonacci-based matrix, wherein the letterforms oscillate between geometric precision and fluid adaptability, reflecting the negotiation between imposed order and emergent form.
TP Entopia is thus a typography of dualities: organic yet structured, abstract yet specific, archaic yet forward-looking. It is a typeface that moves backward in history—from the absolutist purity of modernism to an enriched, layered articulation of time and place. Both generative and adaptive.