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Diagramming the Big Idea Methods for Architectural Composition

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ISBN-10: 0415894093

ISBN-13: 9780415894098

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jeffrey Balmer, Michael T. Swisher

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As a beginning design student, you need to learn to think like a designer. In Diagramming the Big Idea, Jeffrey Balmer and Michael T. Swisher show you how architects create diagrams so that you can clarify your understanding of both particular projects and general principles and ideas. With 21 simple, step-by-step exercises using diagrams, drawings, and virtual models, in addition to the instructions, the authors clearly and consistently explain how to compose meaningful and useful diagrams. Once you've followed the development of the four projects drawn from the authors’ teaching you'll be familiar with architectural composition concepts, such as proportion, site, form, hierarchy, and…    
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Book details

List price: $53.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 8.35" wide x 11.02" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Read Me First!
What is Architecture?
Organization, Order, Composition
Utility, Function, Purpose
Measure, Matter, Method
Design and Method
Method and Methodology
How This Book Works
Two Roles for Precedents
The Form of the Argument
Glossary
Description 1: Order and Measure
Demonstrations
Sorting Through Ideas
Diagrams as Method
Diagram Types
Diagram and Design Education
Learning Diagrammatic Form
Gestalt Sub-categories
The Diagram and Visual Order
Our Purpose
Glossary
Description 2: The Essential Hut
Demonstrations
Order First
On Order
On Measure
Dividing the Square
Rules of Engagement
Positive and Negative Space
Order and the Orthogonal
Glossary
Description 3: Order, Orientation and the Orthogonal
Demonstrations
Design and Drawing Fundamentals
On Drawing
Relevance to Design
Deriving Order in Drawing
Exercises in Relational Geometry
Defined and Implied Space
Analyzing the Composition
Three Variant Compositions
Contrast, Repetition, Alignment and Proximity
The Variations Considered
General Observations
Motif, Pattern and Theme
Defined Fields
Sorting Through Results
Implied Fields
Adding Fields
Combining Fields
Summary
Glossary
Description 4: The Courtyard
Demonstrations
Building on Proportion
Object on a Field
A figure in the Relational Field
Looking at the Groups
Adding to the Quadrants
Two Elements
Refining the Figures
Observing the New Figures
Observing the New Group
Glossary
Description 5: Figures and Fields
Demonstrations
Conventions in Design
Drawing in the Third Dimension
Adding Fields and Overhead Planes
Turning the Grid
Reading the Section
Plan Layers
Final Relief
Summary
Glossary
Description 6: Axis and Path
Starting in Three Dimensions
Design on a Grid
The Site
Three Figures
Spatial Models
Visualizing Axes
Spatial Hierarchy - Field, Grain and Path
Clarifying Plan Elements
More Complex Strategies
Diagram Model #1
Three Diagram Models
Five Diagrams
Constructing the Model
Glossary
Description 7: Spatial systems
Precedent in Two Dimensions
Introduction
Two Concepts
Two Expressions
Two Dimensions
House with Three Courts
The Danteum
Glossary
Precedents in Three Dimensions
Introduction
Representing the Third Dimension
Phillips Exeter Academy Library
Plan + Section = Isometric
Three-dimensional Anatomy
Unity Temple
Fundamental Diagrams
Cubes in Common
Diagram as Generator
Glossary
Color & Material in Diagrams
First observations
Initial Encounters
A first Visual Palette
Color and Materials
Color and Material as Identifiers in Diagrams
Glossary
Demonstration
Appendices
Glossary
Sources
Index