Why Are Most Buildings Rectangular?: And Other Essays on Geometry and Architecture

ISBN-13: 9781138226555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 270 str.

Philip Steadman

Opis

Bringing together a dozen essays and papers written over the last twelve years, this book provides a unique collection of Philip Steadman’s investigation of the geometry of architectural and urban form.

Spis treści

Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I: Plan geometry, rectangular and circular  1. Why are most buildings rectangular?  2. Architectural doughnuts: circular plan buildings, with and without courtyards  Part II: The history and ‘evolution’ of building types  3. The contradictions of Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon penitentiary  4. Samuel Bentham’s Panopticon  5. The changing department store building, 1850 to 1940  6. Evolution of a building type: the case of the multi-storey garage  Part III: Built form and urban form: geometry, energy and density  7. (with Stephen Evans and Michael Batty) Wall area, volume and plan depth in the building stock  8. (with Ian Hamilton and Stephen Evans) Energy and urban built form: an empirical and statistical approach  9. Density and built form: integrating ‘Spacemate’ with the work of Martin and March  Part IV: Theoretical approaches to possibility in built form  10. (Frank Brown with Philip Steadman) The analysis and interpretation of small house plans: some contemporary examples  11. Generative design methods, and the exploration of worlds of formal possibility  12. (with Linda Mitchell) Architectural morphospace: mapping worlds of built forms; Index