Notably, the chapter on 'How Analysis Can Help Design' has been redeveloped to clearly explain this crucially important aspect of study to a beginner readership.
In this new edition, Analysing Architecture has been revised and expanded. With copious illustrations from his own notebooks, the author dissects examples from around the world and all periods of history to explain the underlying strategies in architectural design and show how drawing may be used as a medium for analysis. Aimed primarily at those studying architecture, it offers a clear and accessible insight into the workings of this rich and fascinating subject. But this book will help.Now in its fifth edition, Analysing Architecture has become internationally established as the best introduction to architecture.
It can be a difficult discipline to get to grips with nothing in school quite prepares anyone for the particular demands of an architecture course. Architecture is complex, subtle, frustrating… but ultimately extremely rewarding. Works of architecture are instruments for managing, orchestrating, modifying our relationship with the world around us. The ‘Select Bibliography’ has been expanded and the ‘Index’ revised.
Two new examples – a Mud House from Kerala, India and the Mongyo-tei (a tea house) from Kyoto, Japan – have been added to the ‘Case Studies’ at the end of the book. Three new chapters have been added to the section on ‘Themes in Spatial Organisation’, covering ‘Occupying the In-between’, ‘Inhabited Wall’ and ‘Refuge and Prospect’. Notably, the chapter on ‘Basic Elements of Architecture’ has been enlarged to discuss the ‘powers’ various architectural elements offer the architect. This new edition of Analysing Architecture is revised and expanded. Analysing Architecture quantity Add to cart
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