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Design Strategies in Architecture - Hardcover

Baker, Geoffrey H.

 
9780747600411: Design Strategies in Architecture
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0747600414 ISBN 13: 9780747600411
Publisher: Spon Press, 1989

Synopsis

This is an explanation of the nature and role of architecture by reference to the work of several important contemporary theorists. It establishes the importance of such key issues in design as the "Genius Loci", or spirit of place, the existence of what can best be termed "forces" which effect design and the essential characteristics of form, including such issues as geometry, structure, axes, surface treatment and rhythm. In the second part of the book a series of analysis demonstrate the methodology which includes an analyses of the city and works by significant masters of modern architecture including Alvar Aalto, Richard Meier, James Stirling and Robert Venturi.

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Review

"For students in their early years, this book has to be outstanding value."
-"Building Design

About the Author

Geoffrey Baker is a professor in the School of Architecture at Tulane University, New Orleans.

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Publisher
Spon Press
Publication date
1989
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0747600414
ISBN 13 
9780747600411
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
296