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Exercises in Architecture Learning to Think as an Architect

240 Pages 883 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

240 Pages 883 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

240 Pages 883 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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This revised edition of Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect is full of new content, building on the success of the previous edition. All the original exercises have been revised and new ones added, with the format changing to allow the inclusion of more supplementary material. The aim remains the same, to help pre- or early-course architecture students begin and... Read more

This revised edition of Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect is full of new content, building on the success of the previous edition. All the original exercises have been revised and new ones added, with the format changing to allow the inclusion of more supplementary material. The aim remains the same, to help pre- or early-course architecture students begin and develop their ability to think as architects.

Learning to do architecture is tricky. It involves awakening abilities that remain dormant in most people. It is like learning language for the first time; a task made more mystifying by the fact that architecture deals not in words but in places: places to stand, to walk, to sit, to hide, to sleep, to cook, to eat, to work, to play, to worship…

This book was written for those who want to be architects. It suggests a basis for early experiences in a school of architecture; but it could also be used in secondary schools and colleges, or as self-directed preparation for students in the months before entering professional education.

Exercises in Architecture builds on and supplements the methodology for architectural analysis presented in the author’s previous book Analysing Architecture: the Universal Language of Place-Making (fifth edition, 2021) and demonstrated in his Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand (Routledge, 2015). Together, the three books, deal with the three aspects of learning any creative discipline: 1. Analysing Architecture provides a methodology for analysis that develops an understanding of the way architecture works; 2. Twenty-Five Buildings explores and extends that methodology through analysis of examples as case studies; and 3. Exercises in Architecture offers a way of expanding understanding and developing fluency by following a range of rudimentary and more sophisticated exercises.

Those who wish to become professional architects (wherever in the world they might be) must make a conscious effort to learn the universal language of architecture as place-making, to explore its powers and how they might be used. The exercises in this book are designed to help.

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Prelude: the essence of architecture

Introduction

Section 1: fundamentals

Exercise 1: the substance without substance

Exercise 2: flipping perceptions

Exercise 3: axis (and its denial)

Exercise 4: doorway places

Section 2: geometry

Exercise 5: alignment

Exercise 6: anthropometry

Exercise 7: social geometry

Exercise 8: geometry of making

Exercise 9: geometry of planning

Exercise 10: ideal geometry

Exercise 11: axial symmetry

Exercise 12: playing with geometry

Section 3: out into the real world

Exercise 13: making places in the landscape

Exercise 14: making places just by being

Exercise 15: geometry of making

Exercise 16: responding to conditions

Exercise 17: framing atmospheres

Exercise 18: measured drawing

Exercise 19: setting down space-time rules

Section 4: additional exercises

Exercise 20: place descriptions in literature

Exercise 21: architecture without sight

Exercise 21: eliciting an emotional response

Exercise 22: framing

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Index

Author(s)

Biography

Simon Unwin is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of Dundee, Scotland. He has lived in Great Britain and Australia, and taught or lectured on his work in China, Israel, India, Sweden, Turkey and the United States. Analysing Architecture’s international relevance is indicated by its translation into various languages and its adoption for architecture courses around the world. Now retired, Simon Unwin continues to teach at The Welsh School of Architecture in Cardiff, UK.

Critics' Reviews

‘One of those books I wish I had come across when I was studying design. It’s a wonderful educational endeavour.’ Michael Andersson, Amazon.co.uk

‘Great book by a great author.’ jgfw, Amazon.com

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