PRECEDENTS IN ARCHITECTURE A TIMELY UPDATE OF THE ARCHITECTURAL CLASSIC ON DESIGN ANALYSIS
Precedents in Architecture, Fourth Edition provides a vocabulary for architectural analysis that illuminates the works of leading architects and aids architects and designers in creating their own designs.
Thirty-eight leading architects are represented in this updated edition through an analysis of more than 100 buildings that are assessed using a diagrammatic technique applicable to any building. This impressive collection includes fourteen new buildings and seven new, innovative architects distinguished by the strength, quality, and interest of their designs. It delivers valuable guidance in analyzing architectural history as an evolutionary process by exploring the commonality of design ideas reflected in a broad range of structures by internationally renowned architects.
Both novices and seasoned professionals will find Precedents in Architecture, Fourth Edition to be a very useful tool for enriching their design vocabulary and for the ongoing assessment of buildings found in today's evolving landscape.
Prefaces v
Introduction xiii
Analysis 1
Alvar Aalto 8
Tadao Ando 16
Erik Gunnar Asplund 20
Stephane Beel 28
Peter Q. Bohlin 32
Mario Botta 40
Filippo Brunelleschi 48
David Chipperfield 56
Sverre Fehn 60
Romaldo Giurgola 64
Nicholas Hawksmoor 72
Herzog & de Meuron 80
Steven Holl 84
Toyo Ito 88
Louis I. Kahn 92
Tom Kundig 100
Le Corbusier 104
Claude Nicholas Ledoux 112
Sigurd Lewerentz 120
Edwin Lutyens 124
Brian MacKay-Lyons 132
Richard Meier 136
Rafael Moneo 144
Charles Moore 148
Glenn Murcutt 156
Jean Nouvel 160
Andrea Palladio 164
Thomas Phifer 172
Henry Hobson Richardson 176
Alvaro Siza 184
James Stirling 188
Louis Sullivan 196
Yoshio Taniguchi 204
Giuseppe Terrangi 208
Ludwg Mies van der Rohe 216
Robert Venturi 224
Frank Lloyd Wright 232
Peter Zumthor 240
Formative Ideas 245
Plan to Section or Elevation 260
Unit to Whole 267
Repetitive to Unique 274
Additive and Subtractive 280
Symmetry and Balance 282
Geometry 288
Configuration Patterns 302
Progressions /312
Reduction 316
Index 321
Index by Architect 321
Index by Building 330
