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Tools for Ideas : Introduction to Architectural Design / Christian Gänshirt.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Basel : Birkhäuser, [2020]Copyright date: ©2021Edition: Expanded and updated edDescription: 1 online resource (400 p.) : 150 in bicolorContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783035621747
  • 9783035622089
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 729 23
LOC classification:
  • NA2750 .G28513 2021
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction to the expanded and updated edition -- PART A: FUNDAMENTALS -- Design and research -- Architectural design -- Terms and definitions -- Ways of designing -- PART B: TOOLS -- Design tools -- Gesture -- Sketch -- Language -- Design drawing -- Model -- Perspective view -- Photograph, film, video -- Calculation -- Computer -- Criticism -- Criteria and value systems -- Theory -- Otl Aicher: A theory of design -- PART C: PRACTICE -- Introduction -- Digital design -- Research-based design -- Social design -- Postscript to the new edition -- Appendix -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS -- INDEX OF NAMES -- SUBJECT INDEX
Summary: This reference work on the core competence of architects and designers provides a thorough and considered overview of the tools and theories, means and methods and practices and possibilities of creative design. In this substantially expanded edition, a review of recent developments since the first edition has been added, the chapters on digital tools have been updated, and a new, extensive practice section describes the foundations of digital, research-based processes and social agendas in design. The author "demonstrates compellingly that design is a synthesis of creative, technical and architectural skills coupled with academic research and reflection. Enlightening!" (Christian Thomas on the first edition). "Insight into the craft of design. Light in the darkness of how ideas take shape." (Jesko Fezer).
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction to the expanded and updated edition -- PART A: FUNDAMENTALS -- Design and research -- Architectural design -- Terms and definitions -- Ways of designing -- PART B: TOOLS -- Design tools -- Gesture -- Sketch -- Language -- Design drawing -- Model -- Perspective view -- Photograph, film, video -- Calculation -- Computer -- Criticism -- Criteria and value systems -- Theory -- Otl Aicher: A theory of design -- PART C: PRACTICE -- Introduction -- Digital design -- Research-based design -- Social design -- Postscript to the new edition -- Appendix -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS -- INDEX OF NAMES -- SUBJECT INDEX

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This reference work on the core competence of architects and designers provides a thorough and considered overview of the tools and theories, means and methods and practices and possibilities of creative design. In this substantially expanded edition, a review of recent developments since the first edition has been added, the chapters on digital tools have been updated, and a new, extensive practice section describes the foundations of digital, research-based processes and social agendas in design. The author "demonstrates compellingly that design is a synthesis of creative, technical and architectural skills coupled with academic research and reflection. Enlightening!" (Christian Thomas on the first edition). "Insight into the craft of design. Light in the darkness of how ideas take shape." (Jesko Fezer).

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)