Metaphoric Architecture - Transforming Ideas Into 3d Form

Metaphoric Architecture focuses on a fundamental part of the beginning design phases - how to take an abstract idea and transform it into a three-dimensional object, space or building. It will be the ideal studio companion for beginning students of both architecture and interior design, with a wide range of architectural lessons.

List of contents

Introduction. Materials & Tips. 1: Design Fundamentals. 2: Art & Architecture. 3: Music & Architecture. 4: Film & Architecture. Conclusion.

About the author

Michael C. Abrams is a Puerto Rican architect and Architecture Professor at the University of Maryland-College Park. Mr. Abrams is the author of the best-selling book The Art of City Sketching: A Field Manual-2nd ed. (Routledge, 2021). He has taught graduate and undergraduate architectural design studios, sketching and drafting courses, as well as the history of contemporary architecture at several colleges and universities along the East Coast and Midwest of the United States, such as George Washington University, Catholic University of America, Marymount University, and Columbia College Chicago, among other institutions. Mr. Abrams obtained a Master of Architecture from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and a Bachelor in Environmental Design from the University of Puerto Rico. Michael has spent several years working in the profession in the United States, Spain, and Italy.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Abrams, Michael C. Abrams
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032585420
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3258542-0
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; ARCHITECTURE / Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, ARCHITECTURE / Interior Design / General, Professional interior design, ARCHITECTURE / Study & Teaching, Architecture: interior design, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Civil engineering, surveying and building