The third edition of this classic title has just been released from Wiley. Precedents in Architecture explores the work of some of the greatest modern architects through "analytic diagrams, formative ideas, and partis". Some of the studied architects include Aalto, Ando, Asplund, Breuer, Fehn, Graves, Herzog & deMeuron, Holl, Hejduk, Kahn, Le Corbusier, Mies, Nouvel, Pei, Piano/Rogers, Saarinen, Tange, among many others. A must-have addition to any architect's collection.
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cool. this book was introduced to me a long, long time ago and it introduced me to the concept of diagramming. very useful book.
yeah, it's a classic. the new edition is much like the older versions, but features 16 new projects and 8 new architects.
Very cool. Seems a lot more useful than books full of pretty pictures. You can learn a lot from a parti. Great idea for a book. Normally you see glossy pictures of the finished product and some contorted written explanation of the design moves. This book (from the sound of it) sounds like it really breaks the surface and graphically gets you inside the decision process that brought about such great work. This one's going on the christmas list for sure... Thanks for the heads up.
y'all might like this one too, if you haven't seen it already:
Le Corbusier: An Analysis of Form
by Geoffrey H. Baker
deja vu...
hopefully its gotten a somewhat less overly reductive/simplistic in its diagramming than the original we referred to in studio back in the day (atmittedly there is a real dearth of anything on diagramming architecture, so i guess beggars can't be choosers)
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