Exercises in architecture : learning to think as an architect / Simon Unwin.
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TextSeries: Architecture notebooksPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, [2012]Description: xii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 29 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780415619080 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 0415619084 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9780415619097 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0415619092 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780203136249 (ebook)
- 0203136241 (ebook)
- Learning to think as an architect
- 720.76 U.S.E 23
- NA2005 .U59 2012
Contents:
Summary:
Architecture is a doing word. You can learn a great deal about the workings of architecture through analyzing examples but a fuller understanding of its powers and potential comes through practice, by trying to do it ... 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, aleatoric design, uses of geometry, stage setting, eliciting emotional responses, the genetics of detail and so forth.
Prelude: The 'Architecture' General Introduction Part 1: Fundamentals Exercise 1: The Substance without Substance Exercise 2: Flipping Perceptions Exercise 3: Axis (and its Denial) Part 2: Geometries of Being Exercise 4: Alignment Exercise Exercise 5: Anthropometry Exercise 6: Social Geometry Exercise 7: The Geometry of Making Exercise 8: The Geometry of Planning Exercise 9: Ideal Geometry Exercise 10: Symmetry and Asymmetry Exercise 11: Playing with Geometry Part 3: Out into the Real World Exercise 12: Making Places in the Landscape Postlude: Drawing Plans and Sections
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prelude: The 'Architecture' General Introduction Part 1: Fundamentals Exercise 1: The Substance without Substance Exercise 2: Flipping Perceptions Exercise 3: Axis (and its Denial) Part 2: Geometries of Being Exercise 4: Alignment Exercise Exercise 5: Anthropometry Exercise 6: Social Geometry Exercise 7: The Geometry of Making Exercise 8: The Geometry of Planning Exercise 9: Ideal Geometry Exercise 10: Symmetry and Asymmetry Exercise 11: Playing with Geometry Part 3: Out into the Real World Exercise 12: Making Places in the Landscape Postlude: Drawing Plans and Sections
Architecture is a doing word. You can learn a great deal about the workings of architecture through analyzing examples but a fuller understanding of its powers and potential comes through practice, by trying to do it ... 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, aleatoric design, uses of geometry, stage setting, eliciting emotional responses, the genetics of detail and so forth.
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