100 ideas that changed architecture / Richard Weston.
Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2015Edition: [Enhanced Credo edition]Description: 1 online resource (106 entries) ; digital filesContent type:- text
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- 9781785392023
- One hundred ideas that changed architecture
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- NA2750 .W487 2011
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Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- No. 1. Fireplace -- No. 2. Floor -- No. 3. Wall -- No. 4. Column and beam -- No. 5. Door -- No. 6. Window -- No. 7. Brick -- No. 8. Staircase -- No 9. Classical orders -- No. 10. Arch -- No. 11. Vault -- No. 12. Dome -- No. 13. Arcade -- No. 14. Courtyard -- No. 15. Atrium -- No. 16. Platform -- No. 17. Basilica -- No. 18. Humanism -- No. 19. Proportion -- No. 20. Form -- No. 21. Ornament -- No. 22. Ideal -- No. 23. Module -- No. 24. Grid -- No. 25. Symmetry -- No. 26. Commodity, firmness and delight -- No. 27. Particularity -- No. 28. Architect -- No. 29. Orthographic projection -- No. 30. Perspective projection -- No. 31. Composition -- No. 32. Utopia -- No. 33. Style -- No. 34. Palladianism -- No. 35. Corridor -- No. 36. Primitive hut -- No. 37. Genius loci -- No. 38. Scenography -- No. 39. Picturesque -- No. 40. Gothic revival -- No. 41. Beaux-arts -- No. 42. Iron -- No. 43. Steel -- No. 44. Glass -- No. 45. Roof lighting -- No. 46. Structural frame -- No. 47. Central heating -- No. 48. Electric lighting -- No. 49. The lift -- No. 50. Reinforced concrete -- No. 51. Art of building -- No. 52. Tectonic form -- No. 53. Polychromy -- No. 54. Conservation -- No. 55. Empathy --
No. 56. Air conditioning -- No. 57. Form follows function -- No. 58. Zeitgeist -- No. 59. Space -- No. 60. Modernity -- No. 61. In the nature of materials -- No. 62. Cladding -- No. 63. Organic architecture -- No. 64. Ornament is crime -- No. 65. Free plan -- No. 66. Architectural promenade -- No. 67. Five points of a new architecture -- No. 68. Abstraction -- No. 69. Transparency -- No. 70. Axonometric projection -- No. 71. Collage -- No. 72. Layering -- No. 73. International style -- No. 74. Less is more -- No. 75. Regionalism -- No. 76. Flexibility -- No. 77. Beton brut -- No. 78. Morphology -- No. 79. Additive composition -- No. 80. Servant and served spaces -- No. 81. Postmodernism -- No. 82. Complexity and contradiction -- No. 83. Shed -- No. 84. Type -- No. 85. Context -- No. 86. Place -- No. 87. Phenomenology -- No. 88. Skin -- No. 89. Computer-aided design -- No. 90. Rainscreen cladding -- No. 91. Community architecture -- No. 92. Universal design -- No. 93. Design and build -- No. 94. Passive design -- No. 95. Sustainability -- No. 96. Deconstruction -- No. 97. Bigness -- No. 98. Fold -- No. 99. Parametric design -- No. 100. Everyday -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Further reading.
This inspiring book chronicles the most influential ideas that have shaped architecture. 100 Ideas that Changed Architecture explores when each idea first evolved and the subsequent impact it has had up to the present day.