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Precedents in architecture : analytic diagrams, formative ideas, and partis / Roger H. Clark, Michael Pause.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clark, Roger H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architectural design.
- Architecture.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 336 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 4th ed.
- Other Title:
- Analytic diagrams, formative ideas, and partis
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
- Summary:
- A timely update of the architectural classic on design analysis Precedents in Architecture, Fourth Edition provides a vocabulary for architectural analysis that illuminates the works of leading architects and aids architects and designers in creating their own designs. Thirty-eight leading architects are represented in this updated edition through an analysis of more than 100 buildings that are assessed using a diagrammatic technique applicable to any building. This impressive collection includes fourteen new buildings and seven new, innovative architects distinguished by the strength, quality, and interest of their designs. It delivers valuable guidance in analyzing architectural history as an evolutionary process by exploring the commonality of design ideas reflected in a broad range of structures by internationally renowned architects. Both novices and seasoned professionals will find Precedents in Architecture, Fourth Edition to be a very useful tool for enriching their design vocabulary and for the ongoing assessment of buildings found in today's evolving landscape.
- Contents:
- Intro
- PRECEDENTS IN ARCHITECTURE: Analytic Diagrams, Formative Ideas, and Partis
- Contents
- Prefaces
- Introduction
- Analysis
- Alvar Aalto
- Tadao Ando
- Erik Gunnar Asplund
- Stephane Beel
- Peter Q. Bohlin
- Mario Botta
- Filippo Brunelleschi
- David Chipperfield
- Sverre Fehn
- Romaldo Giurgola
- Nicholas Hawksmoor
- Herzog &
- de Meuron
- Steven Holl
- Toyo Ito
- Louis I. Kahn
- Tom Kundig
- Le Corbusier
- Claude Nicholas Ledoux
- Sigurd Lewerentz
- Edwin Lutyens
- Brian MacKay-Lyons
- Richard Meier
- Rafael Moneo
- Charles Moore
- Glenn Murcutt
- Jean Nouvel
- Andrea Palladio
- Thomas Phifer
- Henry Hobson Richardson
- Alvaro Siza
- James Stirling
- Louis Sullivan
- Yoshio Taniguchi
- Giuseppe Terrangi
- Ludwg Mies van der Rohe
- Robert Venturi
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Peter Zumthor
- Formative Ideas
- Plan to Section or Elevation
- Unit to Whole
- Repetitive to Unique
- Additive and Subtractive
- Symmetry and Balance
- Geometry
- Configuration Patterns
- Progressions
- Reduction
- Index
- Index by Architect
- Index by Building.
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-118-17082-2
- 1-280-59153-6
- 9786613621368
- 1-118-17084-9
- OCLC:
- 779165291
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