101 Things I Learned in Architecture School

  • ISBN13: 9780262062664
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  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Product Description2008 Silver Award Winner, Architecture Category, Independent Publisher Book Awards. and Winning entry, General Trade Illustrated Category, in the 2008 New England Book Show sponsored by Bookbuilder of Boston. This is a book that students of architecture, in the studio and want to keep in their backpacks. There is also a book that you want to keep them, can in terms of their professors, for it expresses in clear and simple language things murky and abstruse in the classroom tend. These 101 concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process and presentation of the basics of “How to Make a Line,” the complexities of color theory draw a much-needed primer in architectural excellence, concrete what too often left nebulous or open curriculum completed in the architecture. Each lesson uses a two-page format with a brief explanation and an illustration that can range from diagrammatic to whimsical. The lesson on “How to Draw a Line” by examples of good and bad lines is shown, a lesson about the dangers of awkward floor structures indicates the actor Dick Van Dyke in the middle of a flop, a discussion of the proportional differences between traditional and modern buildings features a drawing of a building split neatly in half between the two. By an architect and instructor who remembers well the fog of his student days, 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School provides a valuable guide written for navigating the design studio and other classes in the architecture curriculum. Architecture graduates-from young designers to experienced practitioners will have the book as well, for inspiration and a guide back to basics when solving a complex design problem.

101 Things I Learned in Architecture School

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