Thinking Design: Blueprint for an Architectural Building Typology - Couverture rigide

Lechner, Andreas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3038602469 ISBN 13 : 9783038602460

Editeur : Park Books, 2021

Synopsis

A clearly distilled architectural atlas based on 144 major designs from ancient times to the twenty-first century, showcasing the cultural dimension of building.

However disparate the style or ethos, beneath architecture's pluralism lies a number of categorical typologies. In Thinking Design, Austrian architect Andreas Lechner has condensed his profound typological understanding into a single book.

Divided into three chapters--Tectonics, Type, and Topos--Lechner's book reflects upon twelve fundamental typologies: theater, museum, library, state, office, recreation, religion, retail, factory, education, surveillance, and hospital. Encompassing a total of 144 carefully selected examples of classic designs and buildings, ranging across an epic sweep from antiquity to the present, the book not only explains the fundamentals of collective architectural knowledge but traces the interconnected reiterations that lie at the heart of architecture's transformative power.

As such, Thinking Design outlines a new building theory rooted in the act of composition as an aesthetic determinant of architectural form. This emphasis on composition in the design process over the more commonplace aspects of function, purpose, or atmosphere makes it more than a mere planning manual. It reveals also the cultural dimension of architecture that gives it the ability to transcend not only use cycles but entire epochs. Each example is meticulously illustrated with a newly drawn elevation or axonometric projection, floor plan, and section, not only invigorating the underlying ideas but also making the book an ideal comparative compendium.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Andreas Lechner runs his own architecture and research practice in Graz, Austria, and is associate professor at Graz University of Technology's Faculty of Architecture.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Park Books
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3038602469
• ISBN 13: 9783038602460
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 492
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible