EXERCISES IN ARCHITECTURE learning to think as an architect.

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Contents
Prelude – the essence of architecture
	□ The origin of architecture – place-making
	□ Selling apples – a girl ‘architects’ her world
	□ Degas’ vitrine – making frames
	□ La Bajoulière – a place enclosed
Introduction
	‘Architecting’
	Studying the architectural mind at work
	Drawing (and its limitations)
	The exercises
	Interludes and observations
	Materials and equipment
	Keeping a notebook
	Producing good work
Section One – fundamentals
	Materials
	Exercise 1: the substance without substance
		1a – imposing an idea
		1b – centre
		1c – identification of place (by object)
		1d – introducing the person
		1e – person at the centre
		1f – identification of place (by person)
		1g – circle of place
		1h – threshold
			In Your Notebook: circles of place
				□ Urban circles of place
	Exercise 2: flipping perceptions
		2a – container for a dead person
		2b – pyramid
		2c – theatre and house
			In Your Notebook: examples of flipping
				□ Competing priorities
				□ Tensions
	Exercise 3: axis (and its denial)
		3a – doorway axis
		3b – quartering
		3c – relating to the remote
		3d – temple
			□ A timeless syntax – ‘The Artist is Present’
			□ Axis in use – Woodland Chapel
			In Your Notebook: exploring axis
				□ Axis in urban design
		3e – lines of doorways (enfilade)
			□ Enfilade – lines of doorways
		3f – denying the axis
			□ Denying the axis – a few historical examples
		3g – senseless doorway axis arrangements
			In Your Notebook: denying or avoiding axis
	Exercise 4: doorway places
		4a – doorway place
			In Your Notebook: doorway places
		4b – hierarchies of transition
			In Your Notebook: hierarchies of transition
Section Two – geometry
	Exercise 5: alignment
		5a – geometries of the world and person
		5b – geometries aligned
			In Your Notebook: alignment
	Exercise 6: anthropometry
		6a – the ‘Goldilocks’ principle
			□ Human measure
		6b – some key points of measure
			In Your Notebook: human measure
	Exercise 7: social geometry
		7a – social circle
		7b – other situations framing social geometry
			□ A choir stall – personal and social geometry
			In Your Notebook: social geometry
	Exercise 8: geometry of making
		8a – form and geometry
		8b – adding a roof
		8c – parallel walls
			□ Geometry of making – Welsh house
		8d – try toothpicks…
			□ Geometry of making – building materials
			In Your Notebook: geometry of a house
				□ Geometries of being – regarding the circle
		8e – squaring the circle
			□ Geometry – Korowai house
			□ Geometry – Farnsworth House
			□ Classic form – megaron variations
		8f – roofing greater spans
			Corbel structures
			□ Geometry of making – corbel dome
			Columns and beams
			Arch
			In Your Notebook: structural geometry
				□ Conflict in geometry – for a poetic reason
				□ Geometry – attitudes
				□ Mind–nature dialectic
				□ ‘God’s law’
				□ Stretching the geometry of making
				□ Disregarding the geometry of making
				□ Excavation
				□ Sensational distortion
		8g – transcending the geometry of making
			In Your Notebook: attitudes to the geometry of making
	Exercise 9: geometry of planning
		9a – squares, rectangles
		9b – parallel walls
		9c – multi-room buildings
		9d – relations with places open to the sky
			In Your Notebook: enclosed places open to the sky
				□ Harmony of the rectangle
				□ Modifying the rectangle
			In Your Notebook: modifying geometry
		9e – columned spaces/free plan
			In Your Notebook: ‘free’ plan
	Exercise 10: ideal geometry
		10a – a (perfectly) square space
		10b – extending the square
		10c – cube
		10d – problems with ideal geometry
			□ Problems of thickness
			□ 9 Square Grid House
			□ Fascinating geometry 1
			□ Fascinating geometry 2
			□ Fascinating geometry 3
			In Your Notebook: ideal geometry
			□ Sphere
	Exercise 11: axial symmetry
		11a – axis of symmetry
			□ Is perfect axial symmetry possible?
		11b – subverting axial symmetry
			In Your Notebook: symmetry and asymmetry
			□ Nuanced symmetry
	Exercise 12: playing with geometry
		12a – layering geometry
		12b – twisted geometry
		12c – breaking ideal geometry
			□ Forces beyond your control
			In Your Notebook: forces beyond control
				□ Artificial ruin – broken geometry
				□ Geometry challenged by conditions
		12d – more complex geometry
			Catenary curve
			Spiral
			Möbius strip
		12e – distorting geometry
			In Your Notebook: distorted geometry
				□ Computer-generated form
				□ Thinking in geometry
Section Three – out into the real world
	Exercise 13: making places in the landscape
		13a – preparation
			What you could learn
			□ Place as frame
		13b – identify place by choice and occupation
			In Your Notebook: place-making by recognition
				□ Dunino Den
				□ Prospect and refuge; refuge and arena
				□ Relationship with the horizon
				□ Place and memory
				□ Uluru (Ayer’s Rock)
		13c – begin to make your place better
			Senses other than sight
	Exercise 14: making places just by being
		□ Richard Long
		14a – circle of place
		14b – modifying your circle of place
			Marker or focus
			Performance place
			Doorways and axes
			Temple, church, mosque
		14c – making places with people
			□ Australian aborigine place-making
			□ Ettore Sottsass
		14d – anthropometry
	Exercise 15: geometry of making
		□ Nick’s camp
		□ Ray Mears – places in the landscape
	Exercise 16: responding to conditions
		In Your Notebook: responding to conditions
	Exercise 17: framing atmosphere
		In Your Notebook: draw your places
			□ Drawing plans and sections
	Exercise 18: measured drawing
	Exercise 19: setting down space-time rules
		19a – make up your own spatial rules
		19b – experiment with time as an element
			In Your Notebook: space-time rules
Section Four – additional exercises
	Exercise 20: place descriptions in literature
	Exercise 21: architecture without sight
	Exercise 22: eliciting an emotional response
	Exercise 23: framing
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index