Architectural Thought : The Design Process and and the Expectant Eye
decisive. They would certainly involve the client, cost consul- tants, planning authorities, legal building control officers, fi ...
greater clear spans, but architecture is not judged – and should not be judged – by the dimension of its biggest span. The inevi ...
an event on the basis of past experience; exactly the path pur- sued by many academic endeavours. On the contrary, it needs to b ...
The question as to whether we benefit from an understanding of the design process, from a possible theory, has a number of answe ...
conclusions. Nor was he probably concerned to what extent he was continuing an existing tradition which he saw embodied in Hagia ...
Sinan was a prolific architect although he only came to architecture at the age of 49, having first been a military engi- neer. ...
It is significant that the proposed test was not a verbal criticism but a visual comparison. The suggestion was in some ways aki ...
the Houses of Parliament, law courts, and a proliferation of churches. The teaching at the Bauhaus was based on quite differ- en ...
In the prologue to On the Art of Building in Ten Books Alberti sets out the claim: ‘... that the security, dignity and honour of ...
are, moreover, significant differences between various kinds of non-verbal thought. Mime, for instance, can tell a story and con ...
making a 90° triangle had the same properties in the days of Pythagoras as they have now. A triangle may acquire additional and ...
The influence of the past is inescapable and a total absence of continuity is therefore inconceivable. We cannot purge our- selv ...
Innovation also suggests a certain degree of optimism; that not all the answers are already in existence, that in fact new and p ...
the present, and innovation through the need for a new and tentative solution to P 1. The error elimination stage is especially ...
past. It was in fact this recognition of history without facile imi- tation of its earlier forms that marked their major contrib ...
most rigorously corroborated statements at a particular time. The line of demarcation in no way implies a value judgement; both ...
The congruence between the scientific search and the design process may not be related to any similarity between science and arc ...
Gothic, for instance, turned out to be a daring and robust innovation when it originated in the Ile-de-France in the 12th centur ...
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Carlo Scarpa has frequently been called ‘architetto poeta’; Martin Heidegger claimed that ‘all art... is essentially poetry’. It ...
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