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Analysing Architecture
Analysing Architecture

Paperback
Edition: 2
Author: Simon Unwin
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date: September 2003
ISBN-10: 041530685X
ISBN-13: 9780415306850
List Price: £24.99
Average Customer Rating:
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Tacit and Explicit Divide Remains
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I found this book rather unsatisfying. Like so many instructional works in design, the duality of tacit and explicit knowledge was not bridged and again like so many works of this sort it relies upon a rehearsal of historical and contemporary precedents and exemplars to illustrate formal spatial, geometric and structural concepts. Talking about design is not the same as doing it and I did not feel the book helped one to set about tackling a design problem. The many hand drawn illustrations are engaging - the better ones are those that have not been traced or rendered over from photographs.

Naming the pieces and putting them together
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A good clear way to start in a journey to understand the human foundations and terminology of architecture. Many books like this can either lose you in complexity in the first few pages, or be tediously simple coffee table books where the glossy images are real content, but this book just about manages the tightrope between the two. I'd recommnend it, but what do I know? (more than I did before)

Excellent and highly recommended introduction to architectur
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This is an excellent book, recommended to anyone seriously interested in architecture. It's starting point is Unwin's ability to draw well - to think through his hands, as it were. This is fundamental to architectural skill and Unwin has used it to 'talk back to himself' and describe the architecture around him. He uses this skill to romp through a huge number and variety of buildings and architectural situations in order to describe architectural strategies. Unwin has at the heart of his book a definition and understanding of architecture that we thoroughly endorse: to be dealt with in terms of its conceptual organisation and intellectual structure. But he adds to this potentially dry definition an emotive overlay or parallel: architecture as the identification of place ("Place is to architecture as meaning is to language.") Thus he takes on th eissue of why we value architecture. (Oddly though, his book makes no reference - even in the bibliography - to D.K.Ching and Geoffrey Baker's similar and earlier books on architectural analysis, both of which are also very good and worth looking up.)

Fantastic, get it
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The book gives you a clear understanding of architecture. Great if you are a first year architecture student. You will find that is will get you through your first year.

Excellent introduction.
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Beginning with the root definition of architecture as its "conceptual organization, its intellectual structures"., the author makes clear its function as "identification of place", goes on to identify the basic elements and concepts, examines the use of natural features of the landscape, analyzes primitive place types, geometry in architecture, space and structure, and other key concepts.
From the campsites of primitive man to the sophisticated structures of the late twentieth century, architecture as an essential function of human activity is explained clearly, and illustrated with the author's own excellent drawings. Highly recommended as a well-organized and readable introduction.

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