Analysing Architecture - Unwin, UK) Simon (University of Dundee

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Résumé :
With copious illustrations from his own notebooks, the author dissects examples from around the world and all periods of history to explain underlying strategies in architectural design and show how drawing may be used as a medium for analysis.

Biographie:
Simon Unwin is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of Dundee, Scotland. He has lived in Great Britain and Australia, and taught or lectured on his work in China, Israel, India, Sweden, Turkey and the United States. Analysing Architecture's international relevance is indicated by its translation into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish and its adoption for architecture courses around the world. Simon Unwin continues to teach at The Welsh School of Architecture in Cardiff, UK.

Sommaire:
Introduction How Analysis Helps Design Architecture as Identification of Place Basic Elements of Architecture Modifying Elements of Architecture Elements Doing More Than One Thing Using Things That Are There Primitive Place Types Architecture as Making Frames Temples and Cottages Geometries of Being Ideal Geometry Themes in Spatial Organisation: 1. Space and Structure 2. Parallel Walls 3. Stratification 4. Transition, Hierarchy, Heart 5. Occupying the In-between 6. Inhabited Wall 7. Refuge and Prospect Postscript 2013 Postscript 1997-2009 Case studies 1. Iron Age House, Castell Henllys, Wales, UK 2. Royal Villa, Knossos, Crete, Greece 3. Llainfadyn, St. Fagans, Wales, UK 4. Mud House, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India 5. Il Tempietto, Rome, Italy 6. Fitzwilliam College Chapel, Cambridge, England, UK 7. Schminke House, Lobau, Germany 8. Vanna Venturi House, Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, USA 9. Woodland Chapel, Stockholm, Sweden 10. House VI, Cornwall, Connecticut, USA 11. The Box, Culver City, California, USA 12. Mongyo-Tei (Tea House), Kyoto, Japan Acknowledgements Select Bibliography and References