| Description |
iii, 243 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 x 22 cm |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Internal versus external: strategies for informing the design process -- How to use this book -- Interview methodology -- Locating questions by architect -- Locating questions by question number -- Brian MacKay-Lyons -- John Patkau -- Tom Kundig -- Thom Mayne -- Neal Denari -- Enrique Norten -- Eric Owen Moss -- Tod Williams and Billie Tsien -- Internal and external: synthesizing ideas and information -- Selected bibliography |
| Summary |
"Developing a methodology for informing the numerous decisions required to advance the design of a building and its relationship to various site and program based considerations is an extensive learning process. Determining the more abstract criteria needed to define architectural languages and create attendant levels of coherence requires additional layers of investigation and conceptualization that are almost existential in nature. Yet decisions of this type often provide insights imbuing a building with a higher level of design depth and experienced richness. Today the exactness delineating architectural languages and ideas of coherence are topics whose definition is imprecise, yet the quality remains an objective underlying architectural outcomes of significance. Outlining a process focusing on the development of architectural languages through identifying organizational and representational conceptual domains, internal explores the application of this practice through interviews with eight internationally recognized architects. Using an interview format that employs standard questions asked of each architect, internal provides a vehicle for enhancing methodologies essential to advancing language-based outcomes. The intent is to support a design process that aids the creation of buildings, spaces and places that are inspiring - ones enhanced by the enrichment of architectural languages" -- Backcover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 238) |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Language
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Architectural design -- Philosophy
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Architecture, Modern -- 21st century
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Architecture -- Language.
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| Author |
Anderson, Jake (Managing editor), editor
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| ISBN |
9781951541255 |
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1951541251 |
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