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Author | : Colin Davies |
Publisher | : Laurence King Publishing |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2011-10-17 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 178067550X |
In order to understand architecture in all its cultural complexity it is necessary to grasp such basic concepts as representation, form and space. The aim of this book is to provide teachers, students, practising architects and general readers with a set of ideas that will enrich their conversation, their writing, and above all their thinking about architecture. The book is divided into eight chapters, each covering a particular aspect of architecture, and introduces difficult concepts gradually. Architectural theorists and philosophers are mentioned in passing and their works are listed in the bibliography, but they are not the subject of the book. Architecture, rather than philosophy, is at the centre of the picture. The aim is to enable the reader to understand architecture in all its aspects, rather than to learn the names of particular theorists. Written in a conversational style, Thinking about Architecture is an invaluable and accessible standard introduction to architectural theory.
Author | : LECHNER |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2021-10-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783038602460 |
A clearly distilled architectural atlas based on 144 major designs from ancient times to the twenty-first century, showcasing the cultural dimension of building. However disparate the style or ethos, beneath architecture's pluralism lies a number of categorical typologies. In Thinking Design, Austrian architect Andreas Lechner has condensed his profound typological understanding into a single book. Divided into three chapters--Tectonics, Type, and Topos--Lechner's book reflects upon twelve fundamental typologies: theater, museum, library, state, office, recreation, religion, retail, factory, education, surveillance, and hospital. Encompassing a total of 144 carefully selected examples of classic designs and buildings, ranging across an epic sweep from antiquity to the present, the book not only explains the fundamentals of collective architectural knowledge but traces the interconnected reiterations that lie at the heart of architecture's transformative power. As such, Thinking Design outlines a new building theory rooted in the act of composition as an aesthetic determinant of architectural form. This emphasis on composition in the design process over the more commonplace aspects of function, purpose, or atmosphere makes it more than a mere planning manual. It reveals also the cultural dimension of architecture that gives it the ability to transcend not only use cycles but entire epochs. Each example is meticulously illustrated with a newly drawn elevation or axonometric projection, floor plan, and section, not only invigorating the underlying ideas but also making the book an ideal comparative compendium.
Author | : Jeffrey Kipnis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tiziana Panizza Kassahun |
Publisher | : Niggli |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9783721209808 |
Revealing how architects can use human rights as powerful tools for better, fairer urban planning - to create livable, sustainable cities of the future.
Author | : Simon Unwin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 565 |
Release | : 2013-06-17 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1136486623 |
Architecture is a doing word. You can learn a great deal about the workings of architecture through analysing examples but a fuller understanding of its powers and potential comes through practice, by trying to do it... This book offers student architects a series of exercises that will develop their capacity for doing architecture. Exercises in Architecture builds on and supplements the methodology for architectural analysis presented in the author’s previous book Analysing Architecture (third edition, Routledge, 2009) and demonstrated in his Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand (Routledge, 2010). The three books taken together deal with the three aspects of learning: description, analysis of examples, and practice. The book offers twelve exercises, each divided into a short series of tasks aimed at developing a particular theme or area of architectural capacity. The exercises deal with themes such as place-making, learning through drawing, framing, light, , uses of geometry, stage setting, eliciting emotional responses, the genetics of detail and so forth.
Author | : Robert McCarter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Architects |
ISBN | : 9780500343319 |
An inspiring monograph that captures the practical yet beautiful architecture of one of the leading architectural firms in the world
Author | : Andrzej Piotrowski |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0816673047 |
An innovative examination of how material practices and constructed environments have shaped cultures.
Author | : Roger Burrows |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0500519544 |
A new interdisciplinary perspective on architecture and geometry—from Athenian Ruins to the Chrysler building The geometric foundations, forms, and patterns in today’s architecture, design and, decorative arts can trace their origins in past cultures. From humankind’s first path-like doodles on cave walls through to the higher abstractions developed to make accurate measurements and predictions, the three-dimensional forms we design and build have always been dependent on available materials, human needs, and the limits of our imaginations. 3D Thinking in Design and Architecture tells the story of the intimate relationship between geometry, mathematics and man-made design throughout human history, from the Neolithic period through the Indian, Egyptian, Babylonian, Chinese, Greek, Celtic, Islamic and Renaissance cultures, to the present and the possible future. Presenting key principles that can be applied across all design disciplines, design expert Roger Burrows relates how geometry as a visual language has evolved to meet our needs, initiated new technologies, and changed the way we think about the world around us. With a wealth of original artwork by the author to explain his ideas, this book will be an essential reference and source of inspiration for students and design professionals.
Author | : Randy Deutsch |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2020-10-31 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1000221822 |
Do you know how to think like an architect? Do you know why you should? How do you make sure that you have the critical thinking tools necessary to prosper in your academic and professional career? This book gives you the answers. Architects have a valuable and critical set of multiple thinking types that they develop throughout the design process. In this book, Randy Deutsch shows readers how to access those thinking types and use them outside pure design thinking – showing how they can both solve problems but also identify the problems that need solving. To think the way the best architects do. With a clear, driving narrative, peppered with anecdote, stories and real-life scenarios, this book will future-proof the architectural student. Change is coming in the architecture profession, and this is a much-needed exploration of the critical thinking skills that architects have in abundance, but that are not taught well enough within architecture schools. These skills are crucial in being able to respond agilely to a future that nobody is quite sure of.
Author | : Andrew E. Benjamin |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780485006056 |
Architectural Philosophy is the first book to outline a philosophical account of architecture and to establish the singularity of architectural practice and theory. This dazzling sequence of essays opens out the subject of architecture, touching on issues as wide ranging as the problem of memory and the dystopias of science fiction. Arguing for the indissolubility of form and function, Architectural Philosophy explores both the definition of the site and the possibility of alterity. The analysis of the nature of the present and the complex sructure of repetition allows for the possibility of judgement, a judgement that arises from a reworked politics of architecture.>