Threshold
neither outside nor in
Simon Unwin(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. December 2026
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-1-041-39698-7 (ISBN)
Description
We tend not to think much about thresholds. Our attention is usually more focused on being one one side of them or the other. But the threshold is perhaps the most powerful of all the elements of architecture.
Architecture is a rich and varied subject, a multifaceted and multidimensional skill. Learning to do it is not easy. It has many subtleties. Becoming fluent can take many years. Informed by decades of discussing architecture and its challenges with students, this Notebook will help you lay foundations for a rewarding career as a creative architect.
All Simon Unwin's books explore architecture not just as a matter of form and space but in terms of its primal driving force, the universal need and desire to make places for life.
Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda to the foundation volume Analysing Architecture: the Universal Language of Place-Making, which first appeared in 1997 and has subsequently been enlarged in four further editions. Examining these extra themes as a series of Notebooks, rather than as additional chapters in future editions, allows greater space for more detailed exploration of a wider variety of examples, whilst avoiding the risk of the original book becoming unwieldy.
Architecture is a rich and varied subject, a multifaceted and multidimensional skill. Learning to do it is not easy. It has many subtleties. Becoming fluent can take many years. Informed by decades of discussing architecture and its challenges with students, this Notebook will help you lay foundations for a rewarding career as a creative architect.
All Simon Unwin's books explore architecture not just as a matter of form and space but in terms of its primal driving force, the universal need and desire to make places for life.
Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda to the foundation volume Analysing Architecture: the Universal Language of Place-Making, which first appeared in 1997 and has subsequently been enlarged in four further editions. Examining these extra themes as a series of Notebooks, rather than as additional chapters in future editions, allows greater space for more detailed exploration of a wider variety of examples, whilst avoiding the risk of the original book becoming unwieldy.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
General, Postgraduate, Professional Reference, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core
Illustrations
475 s/w Abbildungen, 475 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
475 Halftones, black and white; 475 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-041-39698-7 (9781041396987)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
approx. 12/2026
1st Edition
Routledge
€50.94
Not yet published
Person
Simon Unwin is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of Dundee in Scotland. Although retired, he continues to teach at the Welsh School of Architecture in Cardiff University, Wales, where he taught for many years. His books are used in schools of architecture around the world, and have been translated into various languages.
Content
Natural Thresholds Line on the Ground Entrance and Exit Threshold Place Garden as Threshold Theatrical Thresholds Religious Thresholds Narrative and Poetic Thresholds Thresholds in Installation Art