Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect

ISBN-13: 9781032265650 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 240 str.

UK) Unwin Simon (University of Dundee

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.