Manual of Section
Published on 23. August 2016
208 pages
978-1-61689-555-6 (ISBN)
Description
Along with plan and elevation, section is one of the essential representational techniques of architectural design; among architects and educators, debates about a project's section are common and often intense. Until now, however, there has been no framework to describe or evaluate it. Manual of Section fills this void.
Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, and David J. Lewis have developed seven categories of section, revealed in structures ranging from simple one-story buildings to complex structures featuring stacked forms, fantastical shapes, internal holes, inclines, sheared planes, nested forms, or combinations thereof. To illustrate these categories, the authors construct sixty-three intricately detailed cross-section perspective drawings of built projects-many of the most significant structures in international architecture from the last one hundred years-based on extensive archival research. Manual of Section also includes smart and accessible essays on the history and uses of section.
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Language
English
Place of publication
La Vergne
United States
Product notice
Windows
File size
27,58 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-61689-555-6 (9781616895556)
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Paul Lewis | Marc Tsurumaki | David J. Lewis
Manual of Section
Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, and David J. Lewis
Book
09/2016
Princeton Architectural Press
€24.00
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Persons
Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis (LTL Architects) is a design intensive architecture firm founded in 1997 by Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki and David J. Lewis, located in New York City. LTL Architects engages a diverse range of work, from large scale academic and cultural buildings to interiors and speculative research projects.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- ESSAYS
- The Vertical Cut
- INTRODUCTION
- WHAT IS A SECTION?
- CONTEMPORARY DISCOURSE ON SECTION
- HEURISTIC STRUCTURE FOR SECTIONS
- Types and Performance of Section
- EXTRUSION
- STACK
- SHAPE
- SHEAR
- HOLE
- INCLINE
- NEST
- HYBRIDS
- Excerpts from a History of Section
- THE ANALYTICAL CUT: ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANATOMY
- THE EMERGENCE OF THE ARCHITECTURAL SECTION: MEASURE AND PERCEPTION
- ÉTIENNE-LOUIS BOULLÉE: FORM AND EFFECT
- EUGENE EMMANUEL VIOLLET-LE-DUC: STRUCTURE AND EXPRESSION
- THE SECTIONAL CITY
- HEGEMONY OF THE STACK
- THE CONTEMPORARY SECTION
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- SECTIONS
- Extrusion
- Stack
- Shape
- Shear
- Hole
- Incline
- Nest
- Hybrids
- APPENDIX
- LTL in Section
- Sections by Height
- Index of Architects
- Drawing Credits
- Acknowledgments
- Image Credits
- About the Authors
- Copyright
- Dedication
