Description
More than a decade in the making, this is a textbook of architecture rich with design techniques and useful for every architect whether a first-year students or experienced practicing architects. The book teaches the reader how to design by adapting to human needs and sensibilities, yet independently of any particular style. It explains much of what people instinctively know about architecture, and puts that knowledge for the first time in a concise, understandable form. There has not been such a book treating the very essence of architecture.
With contributions by: Michael W. Mehaffy, Terry M. Mikiten, Débora M. Tejada and Hing-Sing Yu.
CONTENTS
- The laws of Architecture from a phyicist’s perspective
- A scientific basis for creating architectural forms
- Hierarchical cooperation in Architecture: The Mathematical necessity for Ornament
- The sensory value of Ornament
- Life and complexity in Architecture from a thermodynamic analogy
- Architecture, Patterns and Mathematics
- Pavements as embodiments of meaning for a fractal mind
- Modularity and the number of Design choises
- Geometrical Fundamentalism
- Darwinian processes and memes in Architecture: A memetic theory of Modernism
- Two languages for Architecture
- Architectural memes in a universe of information
277 pages, b&w ills / 18 x 25,5 cm / English
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