Precedents in Architecture

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Analytic Diagrams, Formative Ideas, and Partis

By Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause

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Precedents in Architecture, Fourth Edition offers a comprehensive vocabulary for analysing architectural design, showcasing works by 38 leading architects through over 100 buildings. Featuring 14 new buildings and 7 new architects, this updated edition uses diagrammatic techniques to assess structures, highlighting the evolution of architectural ideas globally. It serves as a valuable resource for understanding design development and inspires both novices and professionals in their own architectural creations.
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This book is ideal for architecture students, practicing architects, and designers seeking to deepen their understanding of architectural analysis and design evolution. It supports professionals and beginners alike in expanding their design vocabulary and critical assessment skills.

Precedents in Architecture provides students with a foundation for understanding architecture and creating their own designs through the examination of works by internationally known architects. A unique diagrammatic technique is used to analyze over 100 existing buildings and illustrate meaningful architectural concepts.

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A timely update of the architectural classic on design analysis.

Precedents in Architecture, Fourth Edition provides a vocabulary for architectural analysis that illuminates the works of leading architects and aids architects and designers in creating their own designs.

Thirty-eight leading architects are represented in this updated edition through an analysis of more than 100 buildings that are assessed using a diagrammatic technique applicable to any building. This impressive collection includes fourteen new buildings and seven new, innovative architects distinguished by the strength, quality, and interest of their designs. It delivers valuable guidance in analyzing architectural history as an evolutionary process by exploring the commonality of design ideas reflected in a broad range of structures by internationally renowned architects.

Both novices and seasoned professionals will find Precedents in Architecture, Fourth Edition to be a very useful tool for enriching their design vocabulary and for the ongoing assessment of buildings found in today’s evolving landscape.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780470946749

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 March 2012

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Edition: 4th edition

Illustration: Drawings: 300 B&W, 0 Color

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 277.0mm

Height: 213.0mm

Weight: 680g

Pages: 352

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Arts & Culture Michael Pause Non-Fiction Roger H. Clark

About the Author

Roger H. Clark, FAIA, is an ACSA Distinguished Professor ofArchitecture in the College of Design at North Carolina StateUniversity and a practicing architect. He has received more thanfifty design awards, publishes regularly in professional journals,and coauthored Kinetic Architecture. Michael Pause, PhD, is a former professor in the Collegeof Design at North Carolina State University. During histhirty-three-year tenure at NCSU, he received fourteen universityawards for excellence in teaching, advising, and mentoring. He iscurrently a color and light, graphic and residential designconsultant.