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Revealing Architectural Design

Methods, Frameworks and Tools

By Philip Plowright

To Be Published January 15th 2014 by Routledge – 224 pages

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Description

This book clearly addresses how architectural design operates:

  • what are the objectives?

  • how do you set up processes that have a high degree of success?

  • how do you develop conceptual tools to assist in the design process?

  • how do you satisfy the cultural needs of innovation and usability?

  • how do you make a design inherently defensible?

All these questions and more are answered by examining the design process from the point of view of pragmatics, syntax, philosophy, application, scale and testing. In so doing, there are clear sequences of activity which can be identified and explained. Including diagrams and examples, the content is accessible and methods are described by what they can accomplish, what biases they introduce and the use of their final outcomes.

Contents

Part 1: Conceptual groundings Introduction: Normative philosophy and the intellectual shift to language/pragmatism 1. An overview of current views of design methods 2. Placing philosophy and theory: conceptual tools 3. The nature of architecture as a design profession 4. Exploring the Structure of Architectural Design Part 2: Embodied Methodologies 5. Situational/Syntactic Method: Constraint/Asset Processes 6. Syntactic Method: Typology 7. Situational Method: Geographic Leveraging 8. Semantic Method: Inference Transfer /Cross-domain Mapping 9. Semantic Method: Structure Mapping 10. Blended Method: Situation-Response Questioning 11. Conclusion Appendix A – Techniques of Thinking Styles Appendix B – Glossary of Disciplinary Syntax

Name: Revealing Architectural Design: Methods, Frameworks and Tools (Paperback) – Routledge 
Description: By Philip Plowright. This book clearly addresses how architectural design operates: what are the objectives? how do you set up processes that have a high degree of success? how do you develop conceptual tools to assist in the design process? how do you satisfy the...
Categories: Theory of Architecture, Architectural Design, Drawing and Presentation, Architectural Reference