Author: Percy E. (Percy Erskine) NobbsPublisher: London : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Design : a Treatise on the Discovery of Form
Author: Percy E. (Percy Erskine) NobbsPublisher: London : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Design
Author: Percy Erskine NobbsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Form and Object
Author: Tristan GarciaPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748681523
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
What is a thing? What is an object? Tristan Garcia decisively overturns 100 years of Heideggerian orthodoxy about the supposedly derivative nature of objects to put forward a new theory of ontology that gives us deep insights into the world and our place
The Design Continuum
Author: Stewart KranzPublisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Notes on the Synthesis of Form
Author: Christopher AlexanderPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674627512
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response to function." This book, opening with these words, presents an entirely new theory of the process of design. In the first part of the book, Christopher Alexander discusses the process by which a form is adapted to the context of human needs and demands that has called it into being. He shows that such an adaptive process will be successful only if it proceeds piecemeal instead of all at once. It is for this reason that forms from traditional un-self-conscious cultures, molded not by designers but by the slow pattern of changes within tradition, are so beautifully organized and adapted. When the designer, in our own self-conscious culture, is called on to create a form that is adapted to its context he is unsuccessful, because the preconceived categories out of which he builds his picture of the problem do not correspond to the inherent components of the problem, and therefore lead only to the arbitrariness, willfulness, and lack of understanding which plague the design of modern buildings and modern cities. In the second part, Mr. Alexander presents a method by which the designer may bring his full creative imagination into play, and yet avoid the traps of irrelevant preconception. He shows that, whenever a problem is stated, it is possible to ignore existing concepts and to create new concepts, out of the structure of the problem itself, which do correspond correctly to what he calls the subsystems of the adaptive process. By treating each of these subsystems as a separate subproblem, the designer can translate the new concepts into form. The form, because of the process, will be well-adapted to its context, non-arbitrary, and correct. The mathematics underlying this method, based mainly on set theory, is fully developed in a long appendix. Another appendix demonstrates the application of the method to the design of an Indian village.
Rudimentary Treatise on the Principles of Design in Architecture
Author: Edward Lacy GarbettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Rudimentary Treatise on the Principles of Design in Architecture as Deducible from Nature and Exemplified in the Works of the Greek and Gothic Architects
Author: Edward Lacy GarbettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architectural design
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Nature
Author: Sir Norman LockyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author: The Power of Form Applied to Geometric Tracery
Author: Robert William BillingsPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780260291752
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Excerpt from The Power of Form Applied to Geometric Tracery: One Hundred Designs and Their Foundations Resulting From One Diagram The Author of this treatise was first in the field to, prove, that not only was the whole detail of Gothic Architecture founded upon geometric law, but that the power of design still remained with us, waiting only for its application. In addressing himself to the learner, for whose especial use his labours here are intended, he does not wish for one moment to question the previous knowledge upon this subject possessed by many practised Architects, who must have travelled over the same ground as himself in searching for the primary elements of their profession. But whatever the knowledge of others may have been upon our present subject, it has not been given to the world, and the Author's claim holds good as the originator of the conjurations embodied here and in other works, and which, like all sleight-of - hand tricks, are very easy. In short everybody can do them - that is, when they know how. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.