Main entry:

Lechner, Andreas, author.

Title & Author:

Thinking design : blueprint for an architecture of typology / Andreas Lechner.

Publication:

Zurich : Park Books, [2021]
©2021

Description:

455 pages : illustrations, plans ; 32 cm + 1 supplement (29 pages).

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tectonics -- Links between Forms and Function -- Teaching Design -- between Practice and Theory -- Project Selection and Concept -- The Design of Practices and Competencies -- Mediums of Screening -- Plans, Drawings, Sketches -- Selective Attention -- Increasing Knowledge -- Type -- Character, Type, and Model -- Durand's Architectural Typological World Atlas -- Fitness and Economy -- Style and Typification -- Types and Diagrams -- Topos -- Commonplace Places? -- The Traditional City of Architecture -- Architectural Form and the Modern Commercial City -- Commercial, Nostalgic, and Retroactive Types -- Citta diffusa, Infrastructures, and "Stims".
Translated from the German.

Summary:

However disparate the style or ethos, beneath architecture's pluralism lies a number of categorical typologies. In Thinking Design, Austrian architect Andreas Lechner has condensed his profound typological understanding into a single book. Divided into three chapters -Tectonics, Type, and Topos - Lechner's book reflects upon twelve fundamental typologies: theater, museum, library, state, office, recreation, religion, retail, factory, education, surveillance, and hospital. Encompassing a total of 144 carefully selected examples of classic designs and buildings, ranging across an epic sweep from antiquity to the present, the book not only explains the fundamentals of collective architectural knowledge but traces the interconnected reiterations that lie at the heart of architecture's transformative power. As such, Thinking Design outlines a new building theory rooted in the act of composition as an aesthetic determinant of architectural form. This emphasis on composition in the design process over the more commonplace aspects of function, purpose, or atmosphere makes it more than a mere planning manual. It reveals also the cultural dimension of architecture that gives it the ability to transcend not only use cycles but entire epochs. Each example is meticulously illustrated with a newly drawn elevation or axonometric projection, floor plan, and section, not only invigorating the underlying ideas but also making the book an ideal comparative compendium. Andreas Lechner runs his own architecture and research practice in Graz, Austria, and teaches as an associate professor at Graz University of Technology's Faculty of Architecture.

ISBN:

9783038602460 English edition hardbound
3038602469

Subject:

Architectural design Classification.
Architectural design History.
Design architectural Classification.
Design architectural Histoire.
Architectural design

Form/genre:

Classification
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315324
Call No.: 315324
Copy: 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main 315324-1
Call No.: 315324
Copy: 1
Notes: Supplement
Status: Available