Understanding Architecture Through Drawing
Chapter 18 Sustainability The concept of sustainable development, and associated practices such as sustainable construction, len ...
is employed as the media of investigation rather than words. Drawings allow the experience of green design to be analysed from v ...
18.3 Development sketch of the Green Building in Manchester to designs by Sir Terry Farrell. The three renewable energy sources ...
18.4 Sketch by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw explaining the energy strategy at the British Pavilion at the Seville Expo. (Sir Nicholas G ...
use of thermal mass for heating and cooling, rainwater collection, sustainable drainage systems and integration between human an ...
relevant to the architecture student. Three examples are given here from the author’s sketchbook. The first concerns the relatio ...
Another example, this time at the level of building design, is that of courtyard houses in Syria and other parts of the Middle E ...
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Chapter 19 History and archaeology Drawing is a particularly useful tool to employ in the study of the history of architecture a ...
large and well-preserved (such as Egyptian pyramids, Greek temples, Roman townships and Crusader castles), they normally exist i ...
understanding of how early man fashioned the environment. There may be lessons here not just in construction and site planning b ...
Little evidence exists of the lives of our ancestors four to five thousand years ago, except that left behind in the form of str ...
19.3a and b Built at much the same time as the classical buildings of the Aegean (Figure 19.2) these sketches of burial cairns a ...
understand relationships partly lost on the surface. Even if all the evidence is not available, analysis through the sketchbook ...
public open spaces that contained market halls, shopping streets, stadia and theatres. The point and counterpoint of a typical R ...
ground in the water channels, hot springs and sewage systems of many towns. At many sites these are open to scholars and tourist ...
wherever possible. Roman buildings display an unswerving adoption of certain universal principles of design – in this sense the ...
disciplines from textile design to architecture, product design to landscape planning, are to be found in the historical and arc ...
Chapter 20 Interiors Many of the rules that apply to the drawing of exterior space are equally applicable to interior volumes; i ...
The Europa Bar employs a device common to turn-of- the-century interiors – it is constructed as a circle within a square, treate ...
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