Analysing architecture /

"Now in its fourth edition, Analysing Architecture has become internationally established as the best introduction to architecture. Aimed primarily at those wishing to become professional architects, it also offers those in disciplines related to architecture (from archaeology to stage design,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Unwin, Simon, 1952-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, c2014
Edition:Fourth edition, revised and enlarged.
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Table of Contents:
  • How analysis helps a design
  • Architecture as identification of place
  • Basic elements of architecture
  • Modifying elements of architecture
  • Elements doing more than one thing
  • Using things that are there
  • Primitive place types
  • Architecture as making frames
  • Temples and cottages
  • Geometries of being
  • Ideal geometry
  • Themes in spatial organisation: Space and Structure
  • Parallel Walls
  • Stratification
  • Transition, Hierarchy, Heart
  • Occupying the In-Between
  • Inhabited Wall
  • Refuge and Prospect
  • Postscripts
  • Case studies.