Precedents in architecture: analytic diagrams, formative ideas, and partis

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BA timely update of the architectural classic on design analysis/b iPrecedents in Architecture, Fourth Edition/i provides a vocabulary for architectural analysis that illuminates the works of leading architects and aids architects and designers in creating their own designs. Thirty-eight leading architects are represented in this updated edition through an analysis of more than 100 buildings that are assessed using a diagrammatic technique applicable to any building. This impressive collection includes fourteen new buildings and seven new, innovative architects distinguished by the strength, quality, and interest of their designs. It delivers valuable guidance in analyzing architectural history as an evolutionary process by exploring the commonality of design ideas reflected in a broad range of structures by internationally renowned architects. Both novices and seasoned professionals will find iPrecedents in Architecture, Fourth Edition/i to be a very useful tool for enriching their design vocabulary and for the ongoing assessment of buildings found in today's evolving landscape.;""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Dedication""; ""Prefaces""; ""Preface to the First Edition""; ""Preface to the Second Edition""; ""Preface to the Third Edition""; ""Preface to the Fourth Edition""; ""Introduction""; ""Analysis""; ""Alvar Aalto""; ""Tadao Ando""; ""Erik Gunnar Asplund""; ""Stephane Beel""; ""Peter Q. Bohlin""; ""Mario Botta""; ""Filippo Brunelleschi""; ""David Chipperfield""; ""Sverre Fehn""; ""Romaldo Giurgola""; ""Nicholas Hawksmoor""; ""Herzog & De Meuron""; ""Steven Holl""; ""Toyo Ito""; ""Louis I. Kahn""; ""Tom Kundig""; ""Le Corbusier""; ""Claude Nicholas Ledoux"" ""Title page"" ""Copyright page"" ""Dedication"" ""Prefaces"" ""Preface to the First Edition"" ""Preface to the Second Edition"" ""Preface to the Third Edition"" ""Preface to the Fourth Edition"" ""Introduction"" ""Analysis"" ""Alvar Aalto"" ""Tadao Ando"" ""Erik Gunnar Asplund"" ""Stephane Beel"" ""Peter Q. Bohlin"" ""Mario Botta"" ""Filippo Brunelleschi"" ""David Chipperfield"" ""Sverre Fehn"" ""Romaldo Giurgola"" ""Nicholas Hawksmoor"" ""Herzog & De Meuron"" ""Steven Holl"" ""Toyo Ito"" ""Louis I. Kahn"" ""Tom Kundig"" ""Le Corbusier"" ""Claude Nicholas Ledoux"" ""Sigurd Lewerentz""""Edwin Lutyens"" ""Brain MacKay -- Lyons"" ""Richard Meier"" ""Rafael Moneo"" ""Charles Moore"" ""Glenn Murcutt"" ""Jean Nouvel"" ""Andrea Palladio"" ""Thomas Phifer"" ""Henry Hobson Richardson"" ""Alvaro Siza"" ""James Stirling"" ""Louis Sullivan"" ""Yoshio Taniguchi"" ""Giuseppe Terragni"" ""Ludwig Mies van der Rohe"" ""Robert Venturi"" ""Frank Lloyd Wright"" ""Peter Zumthor"" ""Formative Ideas"" ""Plan to Section or Elevation"" ""Equal"" ""One to One-Half"" ""Analogous"" ""Proportional"" ""Inverse"" ""Unit to Whole"" ""Unit Equals Whole"" ""Units Contained in Whole""""Whole Greater than Sum of the Units"" ""Units Aggregate to Form Whole"" ""Units Adjoin"" ""Units Overlap"" ""Units Separate"" ""Repetitive to Unique"" ""Unique Surrounded by Repetitive"" ""Unique by Transformation of Repetitive"" ""Unique in Repetitive Field"" ""Unique Added to Repetitive"" ""Unique Defined by Repetitive"" ""Additive and Subtractive"" ""Subtractive"" ""Additive"" ""Symmetry and Balance"" ""Symmetry"" ""Balance by Configuration"" ""Balance by Geometry"" ""Balance by Positive and Negative"" ""Geometry"" ""Basic Geometry"" ""Circle and Square""""Rectangle Overlapped by Circle"" ""Two Squares"" ""Nine-Square"" ""Four-Square"" ""1.4 and 1.6 Rectangles"" ""Geometric Derivatives"" ""Rotated, Shifted, and Overlapped"" ""Pinwheel, Radial, and Spiral"" ""Grid"" ""Configuration Patterns"" ""Linear: Use"" ""Linear: Circulation"" ""Central: Use"" ""Central: Circulation"" ""Double Center"" ""Cluster"" ""Nested"" ""Concentric"" ""Binuclear"" ""Progressions"" ""Hierarchy"" ""Transition"" ""Transformation"" ""Mediation"" ""Reduction"" ""Large Plus Small Reduction"" ""Part of Whole Reduction""