Design strategies in architecture : an approach to the analysis of form / Geoffrey H. Baker.
By: Baker, Geoffrey H. (Geoffrey Howard)
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BookPublisher: London ; New York : E & F. N. Spon ; Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1996Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xx, 319 p. : ill., plans ; 21 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0419161309.Subject(s): Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etcDDC classification: 721 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Store | 721 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00017769 | |
| General lending | MTU Cork Centre Architectural Education Lending | 721 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00237910 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Modern architecture has become extremely complex and its study has been made more difficult by changes in fashion and a proliferation of design modes. In this book, Geoffrey Baker develops a methodology for design analysis that reveals the underlying organisation of buildings.
Part One explains the nature and role of architecture in a wide-ranging discussion extending from geometry to symbolism. Part Two demonstrates the analytical methodology by reference to cities and works by modern masters such as Aalto, Meier and Stirling.
In this second revised edition, Dr Baker has added a chapter outlining the relationship between some current perceptions of science, art and philosophy, and how these impinge on architecture. The discussion compares Futurism, Constructivism, Suprematism, High Tech, Deconstruction and the attitude of the avant-garde, with the phenomenology of Bachelard and Heiddeger.
Previous ed.: 1989.
Principles of analysis -- Analytical studies.
UCC Fund.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword
- Prologue.
- Part 1 Principles of analysis: The role of architecture
- Aspects of form
- The analysis of architecture
- Part 2 Analytical studies: The village and city in history: Warkworth, Northumberland
- Campo and Cathedral, Siena
- The Piazza of San Marco, Venice
- Analytical studies of buildings: Alvaro Aalto: Town Hall at Saynatsalo 1950-61
- Richard Meier: The Atheneum New Harmony 1975-79
- James Stirling: Extension to the National Gallery, London
- Post scriptum
- Science philosophy art and architecture