Tools for Ideas: An Introduction to Architectural Design

Christian G�nshirt

ISBN 10: 3764375779 ISBN 13: 9783764375775

Published by Birkhäuser Architecture, 2007

Language: English

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Pristine new copy of the first edition trade paperback. This introductory presentation describes and analyzes the theories, strategies, and tools of creative design for the purposes of practical work. With thoughtfulness and expertise, it opens the reader's eyes to the processes that underlie design and demonstrates different ways of communicating about complex design work. The first section focuses on the much-discussed relationship between design and research, between architecture and the sciences. The second section describes basic design approaches, from Vitruvius and Alberti through Erwin Panofsky and Wolfgang Kemp. The third and largest section presents the elementary tools of design, from gestures and words through drawings, models, and simulations to critique, all as instruments of creative design in architecture and its related fields.rds through drawings, models, and simulations to critique, all as instruments of creative design in architecture and its related fields. simulations to critique, all as instruments of creative design in architecture and its related fields.

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Tools for Ideas: An Introduction to Architectural Design

Publisher

Birkh�user Architecture

Publication Date

2007

Language

English

ISBN 10

3764375779

ISBN 13

9783764375775

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Soft cover

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1st Edition

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New

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Architects today must position themselves within an extremely wide-ranging field of qualifications. This makes it all the more important to have a fresh introduction to the field that makes up one of their core competences, the field of design.

This introductory presentation describes and analyzes the theories, strategies, and tools of creative design for the purposes of practical work. With thoughtfulness and expertise, it opens the reader’s eyes to the processes that underlie design and demonstrates different ways of communicating about complex design work.

The first section focuses on the much-discussed relationship between design and research, between architecture and the sciences. The second section describes basic design approaches, from Vitruvius and Alberti through Erwin Panofsky and Wolfgang Kemp to Otl Aicher and Vil�m Flusser. The third and largest section presents the elementary tools of design, from gestures and words through drawings, models, and simulations to critique, all as instruments of creative design in architecture and its related fields.

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Dr.-Ing. Christian G�nshirt is an architect in Berlin and has taught design at leading schools in Germany, the USA and China.

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