Dimensions: Space, Shape & Scale in Architecture
Language: English
Published by Architectural Record Books (McGraw-Hill), 1976
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Good condition. Dust jacket is present but shows wear: creasing and a small tear/chip at the top edge of the front cover, plus some scuffing and light soiling. Book block is clean with no writing or highlighting, and the binding is intact and square. The tan/orange spine beneath the jacket is intact. A well-preserved first edition, jacket and all.
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- Title
- Dimensions: Space, Shape & Scale in Architecture
- Author
- Charles Moore, Gerald Allen
- Publisher
- Architectural Record Books (McGraw-Hill)
- Publication year
- 1976
- Condition
- Good
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0070023360
- ISBN 13
- 9780070023369
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
Dimensions, the authors show, are not just the familiar ones of height, width and depth which designers so often focus on, but in fact include any variable which can be changed without affecting any of the others. Thus the temperature in a room, or the amount of sunlight, or the color, or the psychic pleasure that they all create are all dimensions, too - and all of them must be the necessary concern of architect.
In concise opening essays, Allen and Moore describe space (that celebrated but often illusory product of architecture), shape (which carries the meaning of things) and scale (the relative size and importance of things) with a clarity that gives as good a definition of these abstract concepts as exists today. They then go on to a broad range of case studies, "walking tours" of individual buildings and places, which show how these concepts can be applied (and sometimes misapplied) in the man-made world.
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