Analysing Architecture - The Architecture Notebook (Paperback)

Analysing Architecture offers a unique 'notebook' of architectural strategies to present an engaging introduction to elements and concepts in architectural dsign. Beautifully illustrated throughout with the author's original drawings, examples are drawn from across architectural history - from prehistoric primitive places, to temples, cottages and late twentieth century structures - to illustrate a number of themes and to show how drawing can be used as an analytical tool.
Clearly identifying the key elements of architecture, conceptual themes apparent in buildings, and describing ideas for use in the active process of design, the book takes the form of, and encourages the use of, a 'notebook' of architectural strategies. Breaking down the voacbulary of architecture into themes and 'moves', Unwin explores the underlying patterns of architecture to reveal the organisational strategies which lie beneath the superficial appearances of buildings.
Exploring the interaction of people and the world around them, represented in the buildings, Analysing Architecture presents the idea of architecture as identification of place and offers a greater understanding of architecture's creative disciplines and a chance for readers to develop further their own capacities for architectural design.