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Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect

Autor Simon Unwin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – aug 2022
This revised edition of Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect is full of new content, building on the success of the previous edition. All the original exercises have been revised and new ones added, with the format changing to allow the inclusion of more supplementary material. The aim remains the same, to help pre- or early-course architecture students begin and develop their ability to think as architects.
Learning to do architecture is tricky. It involves awakening abilities that remain dormant in most people. It is like learning language for the first time; a task made more mystifying by the fact that architecture deals not in words but in places: places to stand, to walk, to sit, to hide, to sleep, to cook, to eat, to work, to play, to worship…
This book was written for those who want to be architects. It suggests a basis for early experiences in a school of architecture; but it could also be used in secondary schools and colleges, or as self-directed preparation for students in the months before entering professional education.
Exercises in Architecture builds on and supplements the methodology for architectural analysis presented in the author’s previous book Analysing Architecture: the Universal Language of Place-Making (fifth edition, 2021) and demonstrated in his Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand (Routledge, 2015). Together, the three books, deal with the three aspects of learning any creative discipline: 1. Analysing Architecture provides a methodology for analysis that develops an understanding of the way architecture works; 2. Twenty-Five Buildings explores and extends that methodology through analysis of examples as case studies; and 3. Exercises in Architecture offers a way of expanding understanding and developing fluency by following a range of rudimentary and more sophisticated exercises.
Those who wish to become professional architects (wherever in the world they might be) must make a conscious effort to learn the universal language of architecture as place-making, to explore its powers and how they might be used. The exercises in this book are designed to help.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032265650
ISBN-10: 1032265655
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 761 Line drawings, black and white; 122 Halftones, black and white; 883 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 219 x 276 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.88 kg
Ediția:2 ed
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate, Undergraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Cuprins

Prelude: the essence of architecture  Introduction  Section 1: fundamentals  Exercise 1: the substance without substance  Exercise 2: flipping perceptions  Exercise 3: axis (and its denial)  Exercise 4: doorway places  Section 2: geometry  Exercise 5: alignment  Exercise 6: anthropometry  Exercise 7: social geometry  Exercise 8: geometry of making  Exercise 9: geometry of planning  Exercise 10: ideal geometry  Exercise 11: axial symmetry  Exercise 12: playing with geometry  Section 3: out into the real world  Exercise 13: making places in the landscape  Exercise 14: making places just by being  Exercise 15: geometry of making  Exercise 16: responding to conditions  Exercise 17: framing atmospheres  Exercise 18: measured drawing  Exercise 19: setting down space-time rules  Section 4: additional exercises  Exercise 20: place descriptions in literature  Exercise 21: architecture without sight  Exercise 21: eliciting an emotional response  Exercise 22: framing  Acknowledgements  Bibliography  Index

Recenzii

‘One of those books I wish I had come across when I was studying design. It’s a wonderful educational endeavour.’ Michael Andersson, Amazon.co.uk
‘Great book by a great author.’ jgfw, Amazon.com

Notă biografică

Simon Unwin is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of Dundee, Scotland. He has lived in Great Britain and Australia, and taught or lectured on his work in China, Israel, India, Sweden, Turkey and the United States. Analysing Architecture’s international relevance is indicated by its translation into various languages and its adoption for architecture courses around the world. Now retired, Simon Unwin continues to teach at The Welsh School of Architecture in Cardiff, UK.

Descriere

There is new content in this revised edition of Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect. All the original exercises have been revised and new ones added. The aim remains the same, to help pre- or early-course architecture students begin and develop their ability to think as architects.