Architecture: Design Notebook

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ARCHITECTURE : DESIGN NOTEBOOK ...

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ARCHITECTURE : DESIGN NOTEBOOK 2nd edition A. Peter Fawcett (Illustrated by the author) AMSTERDAM BOSTON HEIDELBERG LONDON NEW Y ...

Architectural Press An imprint of Elsevier Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP 200 Wheeler Road, Burlington, MA 01803 Fir ...

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1PREAMBLE 2 THE CONTEXT FOR DESIGN 3 ARRIVING AT THE DIAGRAM RESPONDING TO THE SITE CHOOSING AN APPROPRIATE ‘MODEL’ ORGANISING ...

1PREAMBLE As we enter the twenty-first century, it has become fashionable to consider architecture through a veil of literature. ...

ing to some universal sequence of decision- making. Moreover, design theorists urged designers to delay as long as possible the ...

2 THE CONTEXT FOR DESIGN It’s a hoary old cliche ́that society gets the architecture it deserves, or, put more extre- mely, that ...

tural forms. Indeed, Le Corbusier applied the formal principles of ‘regulating lines’ as an ordering device both to his Purist p ...

tional cellular domestic plan limited by the constraints of traditional timber and masonry construction was compared (unfavourab ...

equally direct formalexpression inhis Richards Medical Research Building at Philadelphia completed in 1968 (Figure 2.10)wheremas ...

alternativetotheeffetetrappingsoftheFestival of Britain. And within this complex picture loomed a burgeoning technology which fu ...

Whilst this revolution was facilitated by an early nineteenth-century technology, later inventions like the elevator, the electr ...

urity for books but also a dramatic formal outcome (Figures 2.14, 2.15). In 1971 Norman Foster designed an office building for a ...

offered a range of alternatives borrowed from literature and philosophy which in turn has offered architects a whole new vocabul ...

listic obsessions of post-modern architects. Consequently, buildings which are thermally efficient, harness solar energy and rel ...

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3 ARRIVING AT THE DIAGRAM RESPONDING TO THE SITE Unless you are designing a demountable tem- porary structure capable of erectio ...