Precedents in Architecture: Analytic Diagrams, Formative Ideas, and Parts, 3rd Edition
Precedents in Architecture helps you to understand the work of others and create your own designs
Item #: 165-7032-04
ISBN: 0-471-47974-8
ISBN13: 978-0-471-47974-1
Author: Roger H. Clark, Michael Pause Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Format: Paperback
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The 3rd edition of Precedents in Architecture: Analytic Diagrams, Formative Ideas, and Parts has been updated and revised, and provides users with a comprehensive resource for design analysis. This text contains vocabulary for architectural analysis that will illuminate the works of leading architects, and serves to help designers and architects in creating their own designs. Both seasoned professionals and novices will find this text useful for enriching their design vocabulary, as well as for the ongoing assessment of buildings found in today's architectural landscape.
31 leading architects have been represented, and examinations of more than 100 structures that are assessed through a diagrammatic technique, applicable to any structure. The impressive collection includes 16 new buildings, as well as eight innovative architects that are distinguished by the quality, strength and interest of their designs. 320 pages.
Precedents in Architecture: Analytic Diagrams, Formative Ideas, and Parts, 3rd Edition - Table of Contents:
Prefaces
Introduction
Analysis
Alvar Aalto
Tadao Ando
Erik Gunnar Asplund
Peter Q. Bohlin
Mario Botta
Filippo Brunelleschi
Sverre Fehn
Romaldo Giurgola
Nicholas Hawksmoor
Herzog & de Meuron
Steven Holl
Louis I. Kahn
Le Corbusier
Claude Nicholas Ledoux
Sigurd Lewerentz
Edwin Lutyens
Richard Meier
Rafael Moneo
Charles Moore
Glenn Murcutt
Jean Nouvel
Andrea Palladio
Henry Hobson Richardson
James Stirling
Louis Sullivan
Yoshio Taniguchi
Giuseppe Terragni
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Robert Venturi
Frank Lloyd Wright
Peter Zumthor
Formative Ideas
Plan to Section or Elevation
Unit to Whole
Repetitive to Unique
Additive and Subtractive
Symmetry and Balance
Geometry
Configuration Patterns
Progressions
Reduction
Index
Index by Architect
Index by Building
Precedents in Architecture: Analytic Diagrams, Formative Ideas, and Parts, 3rd Edition
Precedents in Architecture: Analytic Diagrams, Formative Ideas, and Parts, 3rd Edition
