The Architecture Concept Book - Softcover

Tait, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500294135 ISBN 13: 9780500294130

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 2018

Synopsis

An inspirational and insightful resource for architecture students and professionals that offers a new way of thinking about the architecture to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century. 

Inspired by the complexity and heterogeneity of the world around us, and by the rise of new technologies and their associated behavior, The Architecture Concept Book seeks to stimulate young architects and students to think outside of what is often a rather conservative and self-perpetuating professional domain and to be influenced by everything around them.

Organized thematically, the book explores thirty-five architectural concepts, which cover wide-ranging topics not always typically included in the study of architecture. James Tait traces the connections between concepts such as familiarity, control, and memory and basic architectural components such as the entrance, arch, columns, and services, to social phenomena such as gathering and reveling, before concluding with texts on shelter, relaxing, and working. Even in a digital age, Tait insists that “we must always think before we design. We must always have a reason to build.”

Each theme is accompanied by photographs, plans, and illustrations specifically drawn by the author to explain spatial ideas, form small scale to the urban. 

700 illustrations, 350 in color

About this title

About the Author

James Tait was the Winner of the RIBA and RIAS Silver Medals in 2008 and has since been a regular guest critic at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. He has also exhibited his work extensively in Scotland, London, and the Far East.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500294135
• ISBN 13: 9780500294130
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288