Building Meaning: An Architecture Studio Primer on Design, Theory, and History

Cover Page
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents Page
Acknowledgements Page
Introduction
	How to Use This Book
1 Context
	Architectural Precedents
	Urban Fabric
	Historical Interpretations
	Context in Design
	Context in Crisis
	Suggested Exercises
	Further Reading
2 Inhabitation
	Program
	User Groups
	Scale
	Perspective and Phenomenology
	Time and Movement
	Suggested Exercises
	Further Reading
3 Building Organization
	Generative Diagramming
	Objective Organization
	Internal Organization
	Subjective Organization
	Conceptions of Space
	Suggested Exercises
	Further Reading
4 Form
	Understanding Form
	Form as Ideal
	Form and Culture
	Form as Language
	Parametric Architecture
	Suggested Exercises
	Further Reading
5 Nature
	Inside/Outside
	Ground as Datum
	Attitudes Toward Nature
	The Vocabulary of Nature
	Sustainability
	Suggested Exercises
	Further Reading
6 Tectonics and Materiality
	Basic Structural Principles
	Structural Systems
	Tectonic Expression
	Materiality
	Light
	Suggested Exercises
	Further Reading
7 Representation
	Basic Representational Tools
	Historical Development
	Drawings and Their Role in Architecture
	Visionary Architecture
	Architecture in Other Media
	Suggested Exercises
	Further Reading
8 Design Methodologies
	The Design Concept
	Trust the Diagram
	Design Critically
	Iterate and Translate
	Embrace Uncertainty
	Suggested Exercises
	Further Reading
Index