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by Simon Unwin (Author) "Before we can get on to looking at some of the conceptual strategies of architecture in detail, it is necessary to lay out some ground..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge (8 May 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0415144787
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415144780
  • Product Dimensions: 27.5 x 21.8 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Offers an introduction to elements and concepts in architectural design. The examples in the text are drawn from across architectural history - from prehistoric primitive places, to temples, cottages and late 20th-century structures - to illustrate a number of themes and to show how drawing can be used as an analytical tool. The book takes the form of, and encourages the use of, a "notebook" of architectural strategies, breaking down the vocabulary of architecture. It explores the underlying patterns of architecture to reveal the organizational strategies which lie beneath the superficial appearances of buildings.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent introduction., 9 Nov 1997
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Beginning with the root definition of architecture as its "conceptual organization, its intellectual structures"., the author makes clear its function as "identification of place", goes on to identify the basic elements and concepts, examines the use of natural features of the landscape, analyzes primitive place types, geometry in architecture, space and structure, and other key concepts.
From the campsites of primitive man to the sophisticated structures of the late twentieth century, architecture as an essential function of human activity is explained clearly, and illustrated with the author's own excellent drawings. Highly recommended as a well-organized and readable introduction.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic, get it, 26 Oct 2000
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The book gives you a clear understanding of architecture. Great if you are a first year architecture student. You will find that is will get you through your first year.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent and highly recommended introduction to architectur, 4 April 2002
This is an excellent book, recommended to anyone seriously interested in architecture. It's starting point is Unwin's ability to draw well - to think through his hands, as it were. This is fundamental to architectural skill and Unwin has used it to 'talk back to himself' and describe the architecture around him. He uses this skill to romp through a huge number and variety of buildings and architectural situations in order to describe architectural strategies. Unwin has at the heart of his book a definition and understanding of architecture that we thoroughly endorse: to be dealt with in terms of its conceptual organisation and intellectual structure. But he adds to this potentially dry definition an emotive overlay or parallel: architecture as the identification of place ("Place is to architecture as meaning is to language.") Thus he takes on th eissue of why we value architecture. (Oddly though, his book makes no reference - even in the bibliography - to D.K.Ching and Geoffrey Baker's similar and earlier books on architectural analysis, both of which are also very good and worth looking up.)
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