The architectural pattern book / Urban Design Associates ; authors, Ray Gindroz [and others] ; with contributions by David R. Csont [and others] ; preface by David Lewis ; editor and contributing writer, Karen Levine.

Title & Author:

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

230 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 226) and index.
Part I. Pattern books : past and present: -- 1. Precedents for pattern books today -- 2. The decline and revival of pattern books -- 3. The purpose and structure of a pattern book -- 4. The value of pattern books to current practice -- 5. The process for creating a pattern book -- Part II. Pattern book exemplars: -- 6. Overview pages -- 7. Community patterns pages -- 8. Architectural patterns pages.

Summary:

From the firm that produced The Urban Design Handbook comes a practical guide to developing and using pattern books -- a tradition stretching back to Vitruvius and Palladio, and the source of many beautiful houses -- to design neighborhoods in collaboration with production builders today. The Architectural Pattern Book traces the precedents of twenty-first-century manuals from the Renaissance to Georgian and Parisian urban assembly kits and colonial American pattern books. It documents the revival of the traditional architectural pattern book as a means of implementing urban design in large-scale developments by describing techniques and working methods of preparing guides for current design and construction processes, and it shows exemplars that will serve as models for contemporary designers.

ISBN:

0393731340 (pbk.)
9780393731347 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic United States Designs and plans.
City planning United States Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Pattern books United States.
Neighborhood planning United States.
Architecture domestique États-Unis Dessins et plans.
Urbanisme États-Unis Guides, manuels, etc.
Design urbain États-Unis Guides, manuels, etc.
Livres de modèles États-Unis.
Architecture, Domestic.
City planning.
Pattern books.
Architecture américaine.
Architecture domestique.
Design urbain.
Décoration architecturale.
Modèle en architecture.
Urbanisme.
United States.
États-Unis.

Form/genre:

manuals (instructional materials)
handbooks.
Architectural drawings.
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.

Added entries:

Gindroz, Ray.
Csont, David R.
Levine, Karen, 1950-
Lewis, David, 1922-
Urban Design Associates.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 232020
Call No.: NA7205 .A74 2004
Status: Available

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