rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Twenty five+ buildings every architect should understand
  title info:
    title: Twenty buildings every architect should understand
  name:
    name part: Unwin, Simon
    name part: 1952-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    edition: Revised and expanded edition.
    edition: Third edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 325 pages : illustrations, plans ; 29 cm.
  abstract: The underlying theme of Twenty-Five+ Buildings Every Architect Should Understand is the relationship of architecture to the human being, how it frames our lives and orchestrates our experience; how it can help us make sense of the world and contribute to our sense of identity and place. Exploring these dimensions through a wide range of case studies that illustrate the rich diversity of twentieth- and twenty-first-century architecture, this book is essential reading for every architect. With the addition of numerous shorter analyses, this new edition covers an even greater range of architectural ideas, providing students and architects with further inspiration for exploration in their own design work. Architects live by ideas. But where do they come from? And how do they shape buildings? There is no one right way to do architecture. This book illustrates many. Its aim is to explore the rich diversity of architectural creativity by analyzing a wide range of examples to extract the ideas behind them. Twenty-Five+ Buildings Every Architect Should Understand is a companion to Simon Unwin's Analysing Architecture: the Universal Language of Place- Making (most recent edition, 2021), and part of the trilogy which also includes his Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect (second edition, 2022). Together the three books offer an introduction to the workings of architecture providing for the three aspects of learning: theory, examples and practice. Twenty-Five+ Buildings focusses on analyzing examples using the methodology offered by Analysing Architecture, which operates primarily through the medium of drawing. An underlying theme of Twenty-Five+ Buildings Every Architect Should Understand is the relationship of architecture to the human being, how it frames our lives and orchestrates our experiences, how it can help us give form to the world and contributes to our senses of identity and place. Exploring these dimensions through case studies that illustr…
  note: Simon Unwin.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-319) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Architecture, Modern
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Architecture, Modern
    temporal: 21st century
  classification: NA680 .U59 2024
  classification: 724/.7
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Analysing architecture notebooks
  identifier: 9781032532394
  identifier: 1032532394
  identifier: 9781032532356
  identifier: 1032532351
  identifier: 9781003411055
  identifier: 2023018846
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230515
    record change date: 20250822141402.5
    record identifier: in00004788134