Design Strategies in Architecture - Couverture rigide

Baker, Geoffrey H.

 
9780747600411: Design Strategies in Architecture
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0747600414 ISBN 13 : 9780747600411
Editeur : Spon Press, 1989

Synopsis

This is an explanation of the nature and role of architecture by reference to the work of several important contemporary theorists. It establishes the importance of such key issues in design as the "Genius Loci", or spirit of place, the existence of what can best be termed "forces" which effect design and the essential characteristics of form, including such issues as geometry, structure, axes, surface treatment and rhythm. In the second part of the book a series of analysis demonstrate the methodology which includes an analyses of the city and works by significant masters of modern architecture including Alvar Aalto, Richard Meier, James Stirling and Robert Venturi.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

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Éditeur
Spon Press
Date d'édition
1989
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0747600414
ISBN 13 
9780747600411
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
296
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780419161301: Design Strategies for Architecture: An Approach to the Analysis of Form

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0419161309 ISBN 13 :  9780419161301
Editeur : Spon Press, 1996
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