Understanding Architecture Through Drawing
to be fairly high, and any breaks in the continuity of the façades filled, unless the breaks lead to further events of interest ...
11.4 The Placa Reial in Barcelona is an even-shaped square surrounded by buildings of consistent style and filled with splendid ...
11.5 Shops and pubs are traditionally grouped around market squares, as in this sketch of North Walsham in Norfolk. 11.6 Cloiste ...
11.7 This sketch shows the main elements that make traditional city form. Notice how the different typologies provide different ...
11.8 This sketch plan by Robert Camlin shows the application of different patterns of urbanism for a project in Dublin. Here exi ...
11.9 (left) The courtyard formed at the rear of ancient tenements in the Old Town of Edinburgh offers a quiet space to experimen ...
the space. Often squares have more interesting paving details than do the surrounding roads, and these should be included in the ...
One lesson to be drawn from this exploration is the need to allow perimeter functions to influence the design and layout of the ...
Chapter 12 Streets, lanes and footpaths Our movement through towns is normally along streets and roads, and hence our perception ...
The mixture of different types of route within a town, and the way they connect up with each other and to the public squares, ex ...
12.3 This sketch of San Gimignano in Tuscany shows the importance of enclosure in city making. 12.4 The bracket-mounted clock at ...
12.5 (far left) This attractive scene in Sperlonga in Italy shows how changes of level can be handled along a pedestrian route. ...
opens into view. Added to this, the remnants of fortifications (as in Dubrovnik) provide a perimeter route around the town as we ...
12.8 Handsome streets like this one in Pimlico, London, are often spoilt by parked cars. Streets and squares cease to be attract ...
12.10 The curve of the main street in Holt, Norfolk, heightens the drama of entry to the town centre. The Georgian house to the ...
12.12 This drawing of a mountain village in Oman shows how permeable historic towns are compared to their modern equivalents. Th ...
Chapter 13 Landmarks, skyline and city image Tall buildings, church spires and vertical features such as chimneys or pylons prov ...
13.1(far left) This street in Chicago is landmarked by towers of different generations (1930s and 1960s). The street becomes a s ...
13.5 Old and new landmarks are here (in central Glasgow) set rather more in competition than cooperation with each other. Althou ...
can also be beneficial to treat towers as a collection of related but different parts. When Sir Christopher Wren designed his 50 ...
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