Architectural Graphics (6th ed.)Įssential and timeless, the fundamental elements of space and form still present a challenge to those who crave a deeper understanding. This bestselling visual reference helps both students and professionals understand the vocabulary of architectural design by examining how space and form are ordered in the environment. The Interactive Resource Center is an online learning environment where instructors and students can access the tools they need to make efficient use of their time, while reinforcing and assessing their understanding of key concepts for successful understanding of the course.Īrchitecture: Form, Space, and Order, Fourth Edition is the classic introduction to the basic vocabulary of architectural design, updated with new information on emerging trends and recent developments.
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of Introduction may be of interest or useful to landscape architects, about a third to a half of it may be indispensible to landscape architects as a brief but coherent framework for their own professional discipline.With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. As a result, over the years architecture as a professional practice has accrued no shortage of history, practice, and theory, from which landscape architects may still draw from.
After all, while architecture (or at least the practice we now call architecture) has been around for millennia, while landscape architecture draws its origin from architecture but has yet to enter into its second century as a distinct profession. In point of fact, a text like Introduction to Architecture may be especially of interest to landscape architects. Also of interest may be some of the sections on building materials, construction methods, and building systems, since some landscape architects may be interested in such topics as much as architects are sometimes interested in, say, plant materials. Ching has a knack for providing clear and easily understandable explanations to often complex topics, meaning that the text can serve effectively as an introduction to rookies or as a refresher to veterans. The sections on, for example, the elements of architecture in terms of form, space, and order are brief but thorough overviews of topics that are fundamental and unique to the architectural professions. The most useful chapters will likely be those on the abstract qualities of architectural design as well as the design process.
Much like Ching's books on architectural drawings, Introduction covers a number of topics that are relevant to the landscape architectural profession without being specific to it. Ching is the author of numerous books on architecture and architectural drawing, and Introduction is a compilation of chapters from several of his books that serve as a succinct overview of the topic. Francis Ching's Introduction to Architecture (Wiley 2012 432 pp. So, while not every book on architecture may be of interest to every landscape architect, most are probably of interest to some and some are probably of interest to most. But it should be very obvious that first, the act of designing and altering the landscape is related to the act of designing and constructing buildings and second, the two professional disciplines are closely aligned. What interest would a landscape architect have in a book on architecture? After all, landscape architects work with the landscape and architects work with buildings. Eckler - National Landscape Architecture I know exactly what you're thinking right now.
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