ARCHITECTURE (Grades 9-12)

SECTION I:   Students will learn the essence of building design through this series of "Graphic Standards": the drawings, charts, detailed illustrations, originally developed by architects, that represent building components and systems, including everything from door frames to roof designs, to air ducts to outdoor sports facilities. This series offers all the essential features of "Design guidelines," giving the student greater opportunity to use this series as a learning tool.

SECTION II:   A comprehensive primer on the ways form and space are interrelated and organized in the shaping of our environment. Revisions include numerous new hand-rendered drawings; expanded sections on openings, scale, and design principles; examples of contemporary architectural design elements. The series provides a fundamental introduction to the principles of form, space, and order -- the basic vocabulary for every architect!  It incorporates contemporary examples of the principles of form, space, and order-the fundamental vocabulary of every designer. The result is a beautifully illustrated volume that embraces today's forms and looks at conventional models with a fresh perspective.  Among the topics covered are point, line, plane, volume, proportion, scale, circulation, and the interdependence of form and space. While this revision continues to be a comprehensive primer on the ways form and space are interrelated and organized in the shaping of our environment, it has been refined to amplify and clarify concepts.
* Numerous new hand-rendered drawings
* Expanded sections on openings and sc ale
* Expanded chapter on design principles

SECTION III:    This series is illustrated with fine instances of architectural experimentation through the centuries. It manages to convey the intellectual excitement of superb design. From teacups, riding boots, golf balls, and underwater sculpture to the villas of Palladio and the fish-feeding pavilion of the Peking Winter Palace, the series ranges over the less-familiar byways of designing excellence. The anonymous houses were built with a natural feeling for place, materials and use and the result was a remarkably suitable comeliness. Today, in our highly civilized society, the houses which ordinary people are doomed to live in and gaze upon are on the whole without quality. We cannot, however, go back to the old method of personally supervised handicrafts. We must strive to advance by arousing interest in and understanding of the work the architect does. The basis of competent professionalism is a sympathetic and knowledgeable group of amateurs, of non-professional art lovers.



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