Ebook: Precedents in architecture: analytic diagrams, formative ideas, and partis

BA timely update of the architectural classic on design analysis/b iPrecedents in Architecture, Fourth Edition/i 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 iPrecedents in Architecture, Fourth Edition/i to be a very useful tool for enriching their design vocabulary and for the ongoing assessment of buildings found in today's evolving landscape.;""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Dedication""; ""Prefaces""; ""Preface to the First Edition""; ""Preface to the Second Edition""; ""Preface to the Third Edition""; ""Preface to the Fourth Edition""; ""Introduction""; ""Analysis""; ""Alvar Aalto""; ""Tadao Ando""; ""Erik Gunnar Asplund""; ""Stephane Beel""; ""Peter Q. Bohlin""; ""Mario Botta""; ""Filippo Brunelleschi""; ""David Chipperfield""; ""Sverre Fehn""; ""Romaldo Giurgola""; ""Nicholas Hawksmoor""; ""Herzog & De Meuron""; ""Steven Holl""; ""Toyo Ito""; ""Louis I. Kahn""; ""Tom Kundig""; ""Le Corbusier""; ""Claude Nicholas Ledoux""