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Analysing architecture / Simon Unwin.

By: Unwin, Simon, 1952- [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Routledge, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Edition: Second edition.Description: 255 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415306841 (hardback); 041530685X (paperback).Subject(s): Architectural designDDC classification: 721
Contents:
Architecture as identification of place -- Basic elements of architecture -- Modifying elements of architecture -- Elements doing more than one thing -- Using things that are there -- Primitive place types -- Architecture as making frames -- Temples and cottages -- Geometries of being -- Ideal geometry -- Space and structure -- Parallel walls -- Stratification -- Transition, hierarchy, heart -- Postscript -- Case studies.
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General lending MTU Cork Centre Architectural Education Lending 721 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00209521
General lending MTU Cork Centre Architectural Education Lending 721 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00152071
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Analysing Architecture offers a unique 'notebook' of architectural strategies to present an engaging introduction to elements and concepts in architectural design. Beautifully illustrated throughout with the author's original drawings, examples are drawn from across architectural history (from primitive places to late 20th century structures) to illustrate analytical themes and to show how drawing can be used to study architecture.

Simon Unwin clearly identifies the key elements of architecture and conceptual themes apparent in buildings. He describes ideas for use in the active process of design. Breaking down the grammar of architecture into themes and 'moves', Unwin exposes its underlying patterns to reveal the organisational strategies that lie beneath the superficial appearances of buildings.

Includes bibliographical references (page: 249) and index.

Architecture as identification of place -- Basic elements of architecture -- Modifying elements of architecture -- Elements doing more than one thing -- Using things that are there -- Primitive place types -- Architecture as making frames -- Temples and cottages -- Geometries of being -- Ideal geometry -- Space and structure -- Parallel walls -- Stratification -- Transition, hierarchy, heart -- Postscript -- Case studies.

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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgements
  • Architecture as identification of place
  • Basic elements of architecture
  • Modifying elements of architecture
  • Elements doing more than one thing
  • Using things that are there
  • Primitive place types
  • Architecture as making frames
  • Temples and cottages
  • Geometry in architecture
  • Space and structure
  • Parallel walls
  • Stratification
  • Transition, hierarchy
  • heart
  • Postscript
  • Case studies: Fitzwilliam College Chapel; the Schminke House; Merrist Wood; the Vanna Venturi House; the Woodland Chapel
  • Select bibliography and references
  • Index