Exercises in Architecture Learning to Think As an Architect

Name: Exercises in Architecture Learning to Think As an Architect
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ISBN: 9780415619097

ISBN-10: 0415619092

ISBN-13: 9780415619097

Edition: 2012

Authors: Simon Unwin

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Architecture is a doing word. You can learn a great deal about the workings of architecture through analysing examples but a fuller understanding of its powers and potential comes through practice, by trying to do it... This book offers student architects a series of exercises that will develop their capacity for doing architecture. Exercises in Architecture builds on and supplements the methodology for architectural analysis presented in the authorâs previous book Analysing Architecture (third edition, Routledge, 2009) and demonstrated in his Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand (Routledge, 2010). The three books taken together deal with the three aspects of learning:…

Book details

List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 1/25/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.782



Prelude: The 'Architecture'


General Introduction



Fundamentals



The Substance without Substance



Flipping Perceptions



Axis (and its Denial)



Geometries of Being



Alignment Exercise



Anthropometry



Social Geometry



The Geometry of Making



The Geometry of Planning



Ideal Geometry



Symmetry and Asymmetry



Playing with Geometry



Out into the Real World



Making Places in the Landscape


Postlude: Drawing Plans and Sections