The Architecture Concept Book

1,850.00

  • By James Tait  (Author)
  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Thames and Hudson; 1 edition (20 March 2018)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0500343365
  • ISBN-13: 978-0500343364
  • Product Dimensions: 24.7 x 3.4 x 20.7 cm

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Inspired by the complexity and heterogeneity of the world around us, and by the rise of new technologies and their associated behaviors, The Architecture Concept Book seeks to stimulate young architects and students to think outside of what is often a rather conservative and self-perpetuating professional domain and to be influenced by everything around them.

Organized thematically, the book explores thirty- five architectural concepts, which cover wide- ranging topics not always typically included in the study of architecture. James Tait traces the connections between concepts such as familiarity, control, and memory and basic architectural components such as the entrance, arch, columns, and services, to social phenomena such as gathering and reveling, before concluding with texts on shelter, relaxing, and working. Even in this digital age, Tait insists that “we must always think before we design. We must always have a reason to build.”

Each theme is accompanied by photographs, plans, and illustrations specially drawn by the author to explain spatial ideas, from the small scale to the urban.

About the Author

James Tait was the Winner of the RIBA and RIAS Silver Medals in 2008 and has since been a regular guest critic at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. He has also exhibited his work extensively in Scotland, London, and the Far East.

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