Architectural Thought : The Design Process and and the Expectant Eye
in Alberobello and the surrounding villages are, however, not circular buildings with conical stone roofs except for a recent ch ...
novative solution and, therefore, could not use any elements from an existing visual language, from a style, however much that s ...
By exclusion we reject a wide range of possibilities including possible styles, by inclusion we settle on an accepted and limite ...
and painted them with blue wax, in order that the cut-off beams might be concealed so as not to offend the eyes. Thus in Doric s ...
constructional techniques but equally the computational and drafting techniques available to make valid designs. Portraits of Ba ...
If, in terms of experiencing architecture, we accept the limita- tions of drawings, computer simulations and scaled-down models, ...
We communicate those choices visually as we commu- nicate other aspects: we draw horizontal lines to suggest brick- work or we s ...
of the wall. On the contrary it produces a visual density of the drawing which is spurious. Thinking about materials has a furth ...
certain climates an integral element of architecture, almost of decoration. Art history has been rather neglectful of the inevit ...
ing the Brion tomb at San Vito d’Altivole in 1969 he decided on mainly board-marked concrete and gold and enamel mosaic tiles co ...
130 Below Sigurd Lewerentz, Church of St Mark, Björkhagen, Sweden 1956–60 ...
Ecclesiologist(Slater, 1856) which remained a project; built exam- ples are, in fact, extremely rare and continue to be so durin ...
132 Below Nijo Castle, Japan;stone fortifications, the standard height of stone walls was 6 m (20 ft) ...
stone and classical Greek building. Yet the roofs of Greek tem- ples were a timber construction but have simply not survived. Th ...
On the contrary, it is important to recognise that that arrange- ment, recorded on constructional drawings, occupies a consid- e ...
Charles Correa once remarked to me, perhaps in a moment of doubt (sometime before he was awarded the Royal Gold Medal for 1984 a ...
from which the architect designer may well get intellectual plea- sure by the elegant resolution of a problem. It may be that hi ...
Structure is governed by certain inescapable laws: the law of gravity, Hooke’s law on the relation of stress to strain within th ...
A beautiful and clear illustration occurs in the first chap- ter of Peter Rice’s An Engineer Imagines(1994), the evocative autob ...
answers (not least putting a column in the centre of the span) but were rejected because of the way the initial problem was view ...
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