Understanding Architecture Through Drawing
13.8 The skyline of Damascus makes a clear distinction between public monuments and private buildings. There are lessons here fo ...
any visual clues to guide them. Even motorists find themselves bewildered by a series of urban roads that sweep between near-ide ...
Chapter 14 Gateways, entrances and doorways The sense of arrival at places is important, and in recognition of this many cities ...
Most gateways derive their justification from questions of security, but they also perform a useful function in terms of legibil ...
The perception and definition of ‘place’, from the regional scale to the domestic, is of crucial importance to design. A regiona ...
14.4 Robert Adam’s Pulteney Bridge provides an elegant river crossing and a gateway into the centre of Bath. Here the bridge is ...
other across a main road. Within the town, entry points exist though they may not be immediately apparent. A roundabout or exit ...
the gateways into cathedral closes or market squares are sometimes given civic expression, and deserve sketchbook analysis. In m ...
designer. In your drawing you can simplify the decorative carvings or simply record one section of detail, but the proportions o ...
14.10 Study of entrance sequence at Goddards as analysed by Nick Hirst. (Nick Hirst) Gateways, entrances and doorways 121 ...
Chapter 15 The façades of buildings Like an honest face, the elevations of a building should tell you something about what funct ...
Drawing the architectural façade may highlight some aspect of current or historical theory of design, or the sketch may simply t ...
modern office blocks contain atria both to help with the control of the internal environment and to provide space for informal s ...
The cinema is one of the more interesting building types of the twentieth century. It gives expression to its function as a buil ...
can make a nonsense of a building in the longer term. But the main reason is that modern technology has made twentieth-century b ...
represented on the same elevation of a building, thereby adding to the complexity of the façade. For example, the Mound Stand by ...
large areas of brickwork can appear to be seamless wall planes rather than composed of individual units, but different colours o ...
and outlines that related well to each other and contained in themselves a harmonic repose. Hence the front of a house may be a ...
SOURCES OF DECORATION A modern abstract façade can add up to dull architecture. Similarly a severe historical building whose bea ...
15.12 South Quay Plaza on the Isle of Dogs seeks to apply proportional systems to give expression to modern office block. 15.13 ...
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