Analysing architecture

• Main Author: Unwin, Simon, 1952-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
• Edition: 3rd ed., rev. and enl.
• Subjects: Architectural design.; Architectural design > Case studies.; ARCHITECTURE > Public, Commercial & Industrial. > Buildings; ARCHITECTURE > Security Design.; ARCHITECTURE > Project Management.; Electronic books.
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Clear and accessible, Analysing Architecture opens a fresh way to understanding architecture. It offers a unique ?notebook? of architectural strategies to present an engaging introduction to elements and concepts in architectural design. Beautifully illustrated throughout with the author?s original...

Table of Contents:

• How analysis helps design
• Architecture as 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
• Temples and cottages
• Geometries of being
• Ideal geometry
• Themes in spatial organisation
• Postscript
• Case studies.