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This book is a reference and companion book for architectural foundation and design studios. It presents basic ideas that have developed through humans interacting with our world and each other. It focuses on their application to architecture and the design of the built environment.
List of contents
What This Book is About. Seeing is Thinking, Making is Thinking. Systems and Uncertainty. How To Use This Book.
Formal Concepts Alignment. Axis. Balance. Centrality. Difference. Front. Object-Ground. Objectification. Orientation. Path-Goal. Pattern. Radiosity. Repetition. Similarity. Solid-Void.
Situated Notions. Containment. Dimensionality. Directionality. Hierarchy. Identity. Implied Action. Implied Motion. Implied Stability. Importance. Journey. Personification. Proximity. Relationship. Spatial Quality.
Socio-Spatial Ideas. Communality. Connectedness. Convexity. Event Affinity. Exposure. Force. Interiority. Presence. Privacy. Procession. Program. Threshold. Type. Vista.
Process Actions. Abstraction. Asset-Constraint. Coherence. Cohesiveness. Extrapolation. Metaphor. Pattern Mapping. Speculation.
About the author
Philip D. Plowright is Professor of Architectural Design and Theory at Lawrence Technological University, USA. He is an academic researcher, theorist and licenced architect with degrees in studio art, architecture and cognitive linguistics. His interest focuses on developing clarity around foundational knowledge in the applied design disciplines for use in teaching and production environments. His previous book,
Revealing Architectural Design (Routledge 2014), addressed the larger thinking frameworks that structure architectural design methods while his research monograph,
Qualitative Embodiment in English Architectural Discourse (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha 2017), looked at latent meaning found between people and environments based on conceptual metaphors and embodied knowledge.
Summary
This book is a reference and companion book for architectural foundation and design studios. It presents basic ideas that have developed through humans interacting with our world and each other. It focuses on their application to architecture and the design of the built environment.
