Analysing architecture : the universal language of place-making / Simon Unwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Unwin, Simon, 1952- author.

Contributor:

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architectural design.

Architectural design--Case studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

326 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Edition:

Fifth edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

Summary:

"Now in its fifth edition, Analysing Architecture has become internationally established as the best introduction to architecture. Aimed primarily at those studying architecture, it offers a clear and accessible insight into the workings of this rich and fascinating subject. With copious illustrations from his own notebooks, the author dissects examples from around the world and all periods of history to explain underlying strategies in architectural design and show how drawing may be used as a medium for analysis. This new edition of Analysing Architecture is revised and expanded. Notably, the chapter on 'How Analysis Helps Design' has been redeveloped to clearly explain this crucially important subject to a beginner audience. Two new chapters have been added to the section on 'Themes in Spatial Organisation', covering 'Axis', and 'The Hidden'. The 'Introduction' has been completely rewritten and the format revised. Works of architecture are instruments for managing, orchestrating, modifying our relationship with the world around us. They frame just about everything we do. Architecture is complex, subtle, frustrating... but ultimately extremely rewarding. It can be a difficult discipline to get to grips with; nothing in school quite prepares anyone for the particular demands of an architecture course. But this book will help"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Architecture As Intellectual Structure And Identification Of Place

Basic Elements Of Architecture

Modifying Elements Of Architecture

Elements Doing More Than One Thing

Using Things That Are There

Primitive Place Types

Architecture As Making Frames

Geometries Of Being

Ideal Geometry

THEMES IN SPATIAL ORGANISATION

1. Space And Structure

2. Parallel Walls

3. Axis

4. Grid

5. Datum Place

6. Stratification

7. Transition, Hierarchy, Heart

8. In-Between

9. Inhabited Wall

10. Hidden

11. Refuge And Prospect

Temples And Cottages

How Analysis Can Help Design

Postscript.

Notes:

"Revised and with new chapters" -- title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Other Format:

Online version: Unwin, Simon, 1952- Analysing architecture

ISBN:

9780367523572

0367523574

9780367524432

0367524430

OCLC:

1191457795

Publisher Number:

99987028138