The Architectural Project Hardback
by Alfonso Corona-Martinez
Edited by Malcolm William Quantrill
Part of the Studies in Architecture and Culture series
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The Architectural Project considers the practice of architectural design as it has developed during the last two centuries.
In this challenging interpretation of design education and its effect on design process and products, Argentinean scholar Alfonso Corona-Martonez emphasizes the distinction between an architectural project, created in the architect's mind and materialized as a set of drawings on paper, and the realized three-dimensional building.
Corona-Martonez demonstrates how representation plays a substantial role in determining both the notion and the character of architecture, and he traces this relationship from the Renaissance into the Modern era, giving detailed considerations of Functionalism and Typology.
His argument clarifies the continuity in the practice of design method through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a continuity that has been obscured by the emphasis on changing goals instead of design procedures.
Architectural schooling, he suggests, has had a decisive role in the transmission of these practices.
He concludes that the methods formalized in Beaux Arts teaching are not only still with us but are in good part responsible for the stylistic instability that haunts Modern architecture.
The Architectural Project presents subtle considerations that must be mastered if an architect is to properly use typology, the means of representation, and the elements of composition in architecture.
Students, teachers, and practitioners alike will benefit from the author's insights.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:232 pages, 12 b&w photos., 58 line drawings., 4 tables.
- Publisher:Texas A & M University Press
- Publication Date:31/01/2003
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- ISBN:9781585441860
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:232 pages, 12 b&w photos., 58 line drawings., 4 tables.
- Publisher:Texas A & M University Press
- Publication Date:31/01/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9781585441860