Architectural Thought : The Design Process and and the Expectant Eye
Design decisions were therefore made on the basis of, first, a criticism of existing answers – known solutions did not solve the ...
The gerberette was calculated, drawn, modelled and the process was iterated until a satisfactory solution emerged. This process ...
time, have now faded into part of the remarkable story of erect- ing a monument which, with the Eiffel Tower, virtually symbolis ...
RightViollet-le-Duc, Design 143 for a Concert Hall in stone, iron and brick which appeared in Entretiens sur l’Architectur, 1863 ...
While this may be a useful and relevant measure, it is far from being the sole ground on which to assess structure or a building ...
When we draw the initial thoughts of a design we make, as a rule, black marks on white paper. Black represents solids, white the ...
In Finland Juha Leiviskä is equally clear that light needs to be thought of as a building material. Writing about Männistö churc ...
147 Below Balthasar Neumann, Benedictine Abbey, Neresheim, Germany; the church was consecrat- ed in 1792, nearly forty years aft ...
148 Below Juha Leiviskä, Church and Parish Centre, Myyrmäki, Vantaa, Finland 1980–84 ...
across the sky, yet is made of concrete. The effect of lightness is entirely due to the subtle graduations of light that play on ...
back to his earlier work frequently characterised by exuberant forms rising out of a solid plinth. In its most celebrated varian ...
Architectural thought, as has been argued, is non-verbal thought. That is its essential characteristic. The elements of that tho ...
the cathedrals of the 19th century. Clearly there is an extended list of words and phrases relating to architecture which sug- g ...
stem from nature, is not a recent pursuit. Antiquity gave gender characteristics to the orders – Doric masculine, Ionic feminine ...
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It would be wrong – and unhelpful – to claim that architecture is the only discipline in which non-verbal thinking plays a power ...
fruitful; in either case it is highly instructive in terms of the argu- ments of this essay. If the exhibit and its container, t ...
The reason for such concentration is largely physiologi- cal. Our foveal vision, the fact that we only see in sharp focus a very ...
different surroundings? Behind that question is the assump- tion that it matters how works of art are displayed, that indeed no ...
Perhaps it should be in reverse order, for we learn before we practice. On the other hand it is the office – or studio or work- ...
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