Architecture: Design Notebook

organisation of his design for Roxburgh County Offices, Scotland, 1970 (Figure 3.51). Here a ‘campanile’ forming strong- rooms a ...

Whilst formally of a very different genre, Womersley nevertheless similarly harnesses the promenade to describe and clarify the ...

Sub-spaces This whole question of spatial hierarchy may also be applied to sub-spaces which are sub- servient to a major spatial ...

immediately comprehensible (Figure 3.56) and avoids any hint of ambiguity. Inside-outside Establishing and then articulating the ...

extension of habitable rooms. At Garches full- height parapet walls punctuated by carefully- placed openings enclose what are in ...

4 CHOOSING APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES In our quest for form-making we have long been aware of the role of technology; in the eight ...

and plastic were to emerge pursued with vary- ing degrees of rigour. Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois, 1951 ...

found contradictions; smooth, welded junc- tions in the Farnsworth House’s steel frame were achieved by labour-intensive grindin ...

SERVICES Consequently, architects seized upon not only the form-making potential of new structural techniques, but also that of ...

architectural expression whose origins were quite remote from such considerations (Figure 4.11). The honest expression of ele- m ...

programme lends itself to such direct or ‘one- liner’ solutions, such as in the case of exhibi- tion buildings, then this insepa ...

seemtoofferbewilderingchoicesforthearchi- tect,therangeoftectonictypes(like plantypes) is limited. For example, will the program ...

Grid But the repetitive grid of a structural frame also offers an ordering device to the architect as the building’s diagram is ...

merely to fill left-over space in an irregular site between the boundary and a primary orth- ogonal structural grid. Plane But m ...

and roof planes which itself reflected the lim- itations of a traditional building technology. Mies van der Rohe’s design for a ...

Choosing appropriate technologies 49 Figure 4.25 FrankLloydWright,JacobsHouse, Wisconsin, 1937. Figure 4.26 FrankLloydWright,Jac ...

powerful pragmatic tradition within the plural- ist ambit of recent British architecture. Just as most buildings juxtapose a ran ...

merely non-load-bearing infill. Therefore within this complex design process, attitudes towards choice of structure and its expr ...

designer plenty of scope for architectural expression, for just as architects of the func- tionalist school decreed that the nat ...

‘skin’ to the building will not only interact with other major decisions as the design develops, butwillalsodeterminetoalargeext ...