This book evaluates how we perceive buildings in different ways depending upon our academic and professional background. With reference to Rem Koolhaas Seattle Central Library, it illustrates a range of different methods available through its application. By seeing such a variety of different methods applied to one setting, it allows the opportunity for researchers to understand how tools can highlight various aspects of a building and how those different methods can augment, or complement each other.

Unique to this book are contributions from internationally renowned...