Tools for Ideas
Introduction to Architectural Design
1st Edition
Published on 11. October 2012
255 pages
978-3-0346-0924-1 (ISBN)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
Switzerland
Publishing group
Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
100 Abbildungen
100 b/w ill.
File size
10,96 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-0346-0924-1 (9783034609241)
Schweitzer Classification
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Dr.-Ing. Christian Gänshirt is an architect in Berlin and has taught design at leading schools in Germany, the USA and China.
Content
- Intro
- Preface
- DESIGN AND RESEARCH
- TEACHING ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
- RESEARCH IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
- ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
- EXAMPLES, PRINCIPLES, THEORIES
- WHAT ONE CAN DESIGN
- HOW ONE CAN DESIGN
- HOW DESIGN CAN BE ACCOUNTED FOR
- Terms and definitions
- PLATO, ARISTOTLE, PLOTINUS: IDEA
- VITRUVIUS AND ALBERTI: COGITATIONE AND INVENTIONE
- VASARI AND ZUCCARI: DISEGNO
- OSTENDORF, RITTEL, UHL: DESIGNING, PLANNING
- AICHER AND FLUSSER: NEGATION AND TRANSCENDENCE
- Ways of designing
- PERCEPTION AND THOUGHT
- DESIGNING AS A PROCESS
- DESIGNING AS AN INDIVIDUAL ACT
- THE DESIGN CYCLE
- DESIGN TOOLS
- SYMBOLS OF CREATIVITY
- FLUSSER: THE GESTURE OF MAKING
- THE AMBIVALENCE OF TOOLS
- "DESIGN TOOLS" AS A METAPHOR
- VISUAL AND VERBAL TOOLS
- Gesture
- STARTING FROM GESTURES
- Sketch
- PARCHMENT AND PAPER
- CREATIVE IMPRECISION
- VISUAL-SPATIAL THINKING
- Language
- TRAINING AND PRACTICE
- CREATING METAPHORS, INTERPRETING, ABSTRACTING
- Design drawing
- GEOMETRY AND ABSTRACTION
- MEDIA SWITCH
- DESIGNING OR DRAWING
- DIGITALIZATION OF DRAWING
- Model
- RELATIONSHIP WITH REALITY
- THE IMPORTANCE OF MATERIALS
- Perspective view
- THE DISCOVERYOFTHE WORLD
- AMBIVALENT REALISM
- PERSPECTIVE AS AN ATTITUDE
- Photograph, film, video
- FROM RECORD TO RE-PRESENTATION
- SIMULATING IMAGES DIGITALLY
- Calculation
- CALCULATION IS INTERPRETATION
- Computer, program, simulation
- FROM CALCULATING MACHINE TO MASS MEDIUM
- DESIGNING DIGITALLY
- NETWORKING THE DESIGN TOOLS
- Criticism
- A TEACHING TOOL
- Criteria and value systems
- FIRMITAS, UTILITAS, VENUSTAS
- INNOVATION AND THE ENIGMATIC
- Theory
- AICHER:THEORY FROM BELOW
- OPEN QUESTIONS
- DESIGNING THEORY
- Trying to address the whole
- Appendix
- BIBLIOGRAPHY, PART A (GENERAL)
- BIBLIOGRAPHY, PART B (TOOLS)
- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
- INDEX OF NAMES
- INDEX OF SUBJECTS
