100 ideas that changed architecture
Richard Weston (Author)
This inspiring book chronicles the most influential ideas that have shaped architecture. Entertaining and intelligent, it provides a concise history of the subject, and is also a fascinating resource to dip into. Arranged in a broadly chronological order to show the development of architecture, the ideas that comprise the book include innovative and influential concepts, technologies, techniques and movements. Each idea is presented through interesting text and arresting visuals, and explores when the idea first evolved and the subsequent impact it has had up to the present day. -- Book Description
Blank forms
216 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
9781856697323, 1856697320
719428882
Fireplace
Floor
Wall
Column and beam
Door
Window
Brick
Staircase
Classical orders
Arch
Vault
Dome
Arcade
Courtyard
Atrium
Platform
Basilica
- Humanism
Proportion
Form
Ornament
Ideal
Module
Grid
Symmetry
Commodity, firmness, and delight
Particularity
Architect
Orthographic projection
Perspective projection
Composition
Utopia
Style
Palladianism
Corridor
Primitive hut
Genius loci
Scenography
Picturesque
Gothic revival
Beaux-arts
Iron
Steel
Glass
Roof lighting
Structural frame
Central heating
Electric lighting
The elevator
Reinforced concrete
Art of building
Tectonic form
Polychromy
Conservation
Empathy
Air conditioning
Form follows function
Zeitgeist
Space
Modernity
In the nature of materials
Cladding
Organic architecture
Ornament is crime
Free plan
Architectural promenade
Five points of a new architecture
Abstraction
Transparency
Axonometric projection
Collage
Layering
International style
Less is more
Regionalism
Flexibility
Beton brut
Morphology
Additive composition
Servant and served spaces
Postmodernism
Complexity and contradiction
Shed
Type
Context
Place
Phenomenology
Skin
Computer-aided design
Rainscreen cladding
Community architecture
Universal design
Design and build
Passive design
Sustainability
Deconstruction
Bigness
Fold
Parametric design
Everyday