Diagramming the big idea : methods for architectural composition
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Diagramming the big idea : methods for architectural composition
Routledge, 2012
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
As a beginning design student, you need to learn to think like a designer, to visualize ideas and concepts, as well as objects. In the second edition of Diagramming the Big Idea, Jeffrey Balmer and Michael T. Swisher illustrate how you can create and use diagrams to clarify your understanding of both particular projects and organizing principles and ideas. With accessible, step-by-step exercises that interweave full color diagrams, drawings and virtual models, the authors clearly show you how to compose meaningful and useful diagrams.
As you follow the development of the four project groups drawn from the authors' teaching, you will become familiar with architectural composition concepts such as proportion, site, form, hierarchy and spatial construction. In addition, description and demonstration essays extend concepts to show you more examples of the methods used in the projects. Whether preparing for a desk critique, or any time when a fundamental insight can help to resolve a design problem, this new and expanded edition is your essential studio resource.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Foreword 1. Introduction 1.1 Read Me First! 1.2 What is Architecture? 1.3 Organization, Order, Composition 1.4 Utility, Function, Purpose 1.5 Measure, Matter, Method 1.6 Design and Method 1.7 Method and Methodology 1.8 How This Book Works 1.9 Two Roles for Precedents 1.10 The Form of the Argument 1.11 Glossary 1.12 Description 1: Order and Measure 1.13 Demonstrations 2. Sorting Through Ideas 2.1 Diagrams as Method 2.2 Diagram Types 2.3 Diagram and Design Education 2.4 Learning Diagrammatic Form 2.5 Gestalt Sub-categories 2.6 The Diagram and Visual Order 2.7 Our Purpose 2.8 Glossary 2.9 Description 2: The Essential Hut 2.10 Demonstrations 3. Order First 3.1 On Order 3.2 On Measure 3.3 Dividing the Square 3.4 Rules of Engagement 3.5 Positive and Negative Space 3.6 Order and the Orthogonal 3.7 Glossary 3.8 Description 3: Order, Orientation and the Orthogonal 3.9 Demonstrations 4. Design and Drawing Fundamentals 4.1 On Drawing 4.2 Relevance to Design 4.3 Deriving Order in Drawing 4.4 Exercises in Relational Geometry 4.5 Defined and Implied Space 4.6 Analyzing the Composition 4.7 Three Variant Compositions 4.8 Contrast, Repetition, Alignment and Proximity 4.9 The Variations Considered 4.10 General Observations 4.11 Motif, Pattern and Theme 4.12 Defined Fields 4.13 Sorting Through Results 4.14 Implied Fields 4.15 Adding Fields 4.16 Combining Fields 4.17 Summary 4.18 Glossary 4.19 Description 4: The Courtyard 4.20 Demonstrations 5. Building on Proportion 5.1 Object on a Field 5.2 A figure in the Relational Field 5.3 Looking at the Groups 5.4 Adding to the Quadrants 5.5 Two Elements 5.6 Refining the Figures 5.7 Observing the New Figures 5.8 Observing the New Group 5.9 Glossary 5.10 Description 5: Figures and Fields 5.11 Demonstrations 6. Conventions in Design 6.1 Drawing in the Third Dimension 6.2 Adding Fields and Overhead Planes 6.3 Turning the Grid 6.4 Reading the Section 6.5 Plan Layers 6.6 Final Relief 6.7 Summary 6.8 Glossary 6.9 Description 6: Axis and Path 7. Starting in Three Dimensions 7.1 Design on a Grid 7.2 The Site 7.3 Three Figures 7.4 Spatial Models 7.5 Visualizing Axes 7.6 Spatial Hierarchy - Field, Grain and Path 7.7 Clarifying Plan Elements 7.8 More Complex Strategies 7.9 Diagram Model #1 7.10 Three Diagram Models 7.11 Five Diagrams 7.12 Constructing the Model 7.13 Glossary 7.14 Description 7: Spatial systems 8. Precedent in Two Dimensions 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Two Concepts 8.3 Two Expressions 8.4 Two Dimensions 8.5 House with Three Courts 8.6 The Danteum 8.7 Glossary 9. Precedents in Three Dimensions 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Representing the Third Dimension 9.3 Phillips Exeter Academy Library 9.4 Plan + Section = Isometric 9.5 Three-dimensional Anatomy 9.6 Unity Temple 9.7 Fundamental Diagrams 9.8 Cubes in Common 9.9 Diagram as Generator 9.10 Glossary 10. Color & Material in Diagrams 10.1 First observations 10.2 Initial Encounters 10.3 A first Visual Palette 10.4 Color and Materials 10.5 Color and Material as Identifiers in Diagrams 10.6 Glossary 10.7 Demonstration Appendices Glossary Sources Index
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