Architectural Thought : The Design Process and and the Expectant Eye
The explanation also needs to be sufficiently general to embrace a significant number of examples and to be seen to correspond r ...
other analogies applied to architecture – has its dangers. The existence of species and their acceptance as distinct recognis- a ...
the criteria need not be enumerated. The second difficulty is that it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to establish a ...
even denigrate continuity. What becomes obvious is that theo- ries are not only explanations of the design process but can – and ...
necessary to select and apply judgement as to which patterns are relevant. This is to some extent helped by a Michelin type star ...
Typology, functionalism and the Pattern Language all have embedded within them as fundamental the idea that preci- sion in knowi ...
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that even a great architect is unable to apply the theoretical assumptions in practice. Kahn’s categories are probably not surpr ...
to express that which is worth expressing, that which has grown to be a distinct characteristic. When one is characteristically ...
This division into served and servant spaces was seen by Kahn as the present-day and relevant order of architecture: ‘The space ...
‘I happened to be in Carcassonne, therefore I like Carcassonne, that’s all. People imagine I took that and put it in my notebook ...
‘Carcassonne impresses me because it’s Carcassonne. Not because it’s a military thing, just because it’s a clear picture or a pu ...
The sixth theory and, as far as I am concerned, the most satisfactory, gives very considerable emphasis to the role of models, t ...
the recognition of a problem, then put forward a hypothesis, a kind of tentative theory which needs to be tested in order to eli ...
very considerable model shift by going back to the monasteries on Mount Athos. He had visited these in 1911 and recorded them in ...
outside architecture but more often than not manifests itself as a problem in architecture irrespective of its origin. Thus soci ...
is that since it is based on both earlier precedents, on an awareness of the past, and equally on the severest possible crit- ic ...
test by analysing a number of buildings and by finding out about their design. I first intend to discuss three significant build ...
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Three much discussed buildings were completed in 1997: the British Library in London by Colin St J. Wilson & Partners, the G ...
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