This book offers an innovative and highly practical approach to architectural design. Focusing on the concept of performance that brought about a paradigm shift in the humanities in earlier decades, the book discusses how to use this concept to address ongoing problems in archit…
Architecture is on the brink. It is a discipline in crisis. Over the last two decades, architectural debate has diversified to the point of fragmentation and exhaustion. What is called for is an overarching argument or set of criteria on which to approach the design and construc…
Architecture is all around us ' it is part of our lives, and its development is a central theme in the history of mankind. Learning to read a building is the route to understanding a major part of our cultural inheritance. Collins Need to Know' How to Read a Building shows you h…
Starting with the basics of analysing the home, then moving onto looking at public buildings and larger and more well-known structures, the author shows the reader how features are inherited and copied, as well as adapted with each new generation.
Each architectural design is a new history. To identify what is novel or innovative, we need to consider the present, past and future. We expect historical narratives to be written in words, but they can also be delineated in drawing, cast in concrete or seeded in soil. The aim …
Each architectural design is a new history. To identify what is novel or innovative, we need to consider the present, past and future. We expect historical narratives to be written in words, but they can also be delineated in drawing, cast in concrete or seeded in soil. The aim …
"Rethinking Design and Interiors explores the position of design in relation to our complex and ever-changing world and promotes a deeper knowledge - with input from the arts sciences, and technology - that will support design's integral role in the advancement of humankind in t…
"Rethinking Design and Interiors explores the position of design in relation to our complex and ever-changing world and promotes a deeper knowledge - with input from the arts sciences, and technology - that will support design's integral role in the advancement of humankind in t…
"Rethinking Design and Interiors explores the position of design in relation to our complex and ever-changing world and promotes a deeper knowledge - with input from the arts sciences, and technology - that will support design's integral role in the advancement of humankind in t…
