Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand by Simon Unwin

Exploring these dimensions through a wide range of case studies that illustrate the rich diversity of twentieth and twenty-first century architecture, this book is essential reading for every architect. The underlying theme of Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand is the relationship of architecture to the human being, how it frames our lives and orchestrates our experiences how it can help us make sense of the world and contribute to our senses of identity and place. Twenty-Five Buildings explores and extends that methodology through analysis of examples as case studies and 3. Analysing Architecture provides a methodology for analysis that develops an understanding of the way architecture works 2. In this second edition five further buildings have been added to the original twenty from an even wider geographical area, which now includes the USA, France, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland, Spain, Finland, Germany, Australia, Norway, Sweden, India and Japan. Together, the three books, deal with the three aspects of learning any creative discipline: 1. Twenty-Five Buildings focusses on analysing examples using the methodology offered by Analysing Architecture, which operates primarily through the medium of drawing. Together the three books offer an introduction to the workings of architecture providing for the three aspects of learning: theory, examples and practice.

Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand is an essential companion to Simon Unwin's Analysing Architecture, and part of the trilogy which also includes his Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect. Introduction Casa Del Ojo De Agua Neuendorf House Barcelona Pavilion Truss Wall House Endless House Farnsworth House La Congiunta Un Cabanon Esherick House Maison A Bordeaux Danteum Fallingwater Villa Savoye Kempsey Guest Studio Condominium One, The Sea Ranch Villa E.1027 Church of St Petri Villa Busk Villa Mairea Thermal Baths Ramesh House Bardi House Vitra Fire Station Mohrmann House Bioscleave House Endword Acknowledgements Index.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index. Starting from Unwins first analytical book, Analyzing Architecture to the Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architecture Should Understand, the conceptual framework of analysis are as.

Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand by Simon Unwin