Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think As an Architect

Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think As an Architect

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<P>Architecture is a doing word. You can learn a great deal about the workings of architecture through analysing examples but a fuller understanding of its powers and potential comes through practice, by trying to do it... </P> <P></P> <P>This book offers student architects a series of exercises that will develop their capacity for doing architecture. <EM>Exercises in Architecture</EM> builds on and supplements the methodology for architectural analysis presented in the author’s previous book <EM>Analysing Architecture</EM> (third edition, Routledge, 2009) and demonstrated in his <EM>Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand </EM>(Routledge, 2010). The three books taken together deal with the three aspects of learning: description, analysis of examples, and practice.</P> <P> <P></P>The book offers twelve exercises, each divided into a short series of tasks aimed at developing a particular theme or area of architectural capacity. The exercises deal with themes such as place-making, learning through drawing, framing, light, , uses of geometry, stage setting, eliciting emotional responses, the genetics of detail and so forth. <P></P>