Analysing Architecture

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Introduction How Analysis Helps Design Architecture as Identification of Place Basic Elements of Architecture Modifying Elements of Architecture Elements Doing More Than One Thing Using Things That Are There Primitive Place Types Architecture as Making Frames Temples and Cottages Geometries of Being Ideal Geometry Themes in Spatial Organisation: 1. Space and Structure 2. Parallel Walls 3. Stratification 4. Transition, Hierarchy, Heart 5. Occupying the In-between 6. Inhabited Wall 7. Refuge and Prospect Postscript 2013 Postscript 1997-2009 Case studies 1. Iron Age House, Castell Henllys, Wales, UK 2. Royal Villa, Knossos, Crete, Greece 3. Llainfadyn, St. Fagans, Wales, UK 4. Mud House, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India 5. Il Tempietto, Rome, Italy 6. Fitzwilliam College Chapel, Cambridge, England, UK 7. Schminke House, Loebau, Germany 8. Vanna Venturi House, Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, USA 9. Woodland Chapel, Stockholm, Sweden 10. House VI, Cornwall, Connecticut, USA 11. The Box, Culver City, California, USA 12. Mongyo-Tei (Tea House), Kyoto, Japan Acknowledgements Select Bibliography and References