ABSTRACT

Analysing Architecture offers a unique ‘notebook’ of architectural strategies to present an engaging introduction to elements and concepts in architectural design. Now in its third edition, this best selling book has been revised to include new discussion on how analysis helps design. Beautifully illustrated throughout with the author’s original drawings, new case studies and examples are drawn from across architectural history to illustrate analytical themes and to show how drawing can be used to study architecture.

Simon Unwin clearly identifies the key elements of architecture and conceptual themes apparent in buildings. He describes ideas for use in the active process of design. Breaking down the grammar of architecture into themes and ‘moves’, Unwin exposes its underlying patterns to reveal the organizational strategies that lie beneath the superficial appearances of buildings.

Exploring buildings as results of the interaction of people with the world around them, Analysing Architecture offers a definition of architecture as ‘identification of place’ and provides a greater understanding of architecture as a creative discipline. This book presents a powerful impetus for readers to develop their own capacities for architectural design.

chapter |3 pages

INTRODUCTION

chapter |2 pages

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

chapter |6 pages

ARCHITECTURE AS IDENTIFICATION OF PLACE

chapter |6 pages

BASIC ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE

chapter |12 pages

MODIFYING ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE

chapter |6 pages

ELEMENTS DOING MORE THAN ONE THING

chapter |10 pages

USING THINGS THAT ARE THERE

chapter |22 pages

PRIMITIVE PLACE TYPES

chapter |10 pages

ARCHITECTURE AS MAKING FRAMES

chapter |14 pages

TEMPLES AND COTTAGES

chapter |30 pages

GEOMETRY IN ARCHITECTURE

chapter |10 pages

Space and Structure 139

chapter |10 pages

PARALLEL WALLS

chapter |8 pages

STRATIFICATION

chapter |6 pages

TRANSITION, HIERARCHY, HEART

chapter |6 pages

POSTSCRIPT

chapter |8 pages

CASE STUDY TWO—THE SCHMINKE HOUSE

chapter |4 pages

CASE STUDY THREE—MERRIST WOOD

chapter |6 pages

CASE STUDY FOUR—VANNA VENTURI HOUSE

chapter |16 pages

CASE STUDY FIVE—THE WOODLAND CHAPEL