Architecture Is Elementary - Visual Thinking Through Architectural Concepts - Softcover

Winters, Nathan B

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879051868 ISBN 13: 9780879051860

Publisher: Gibbs Smith, 2000

Synopsis

"Architecture is Elementary is a self-instruction book that concisely and coherently discusses the principles of architectural design. The concepts open the reader to a broad world of visual thinking. Stimulating lessons challenge the lay person and trigger creative responses from even the most sophisticated designers. Dr. Nathan B. Winters' masterful ink drawins are works of art which clarify the concepts of the book.

"Nathan B. Winters has taken on the task of encouraging us to look at and think about architecture. As he points out, much of our life is spent inand around buildings, yet in so may ways we are really not aware of them. Through a well arranged text, series of lessons and a wonderful selection of drawings he leads us into and through architecture of the present and of the past. If all of us had been exposed to this sort of approach in our early education, America's cities and towns would now be more pleasant places to live in."

--David Gebhard

Professor and Author

Department of Art History

University of California, Santa Barbara

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"Architecture is Elementary is a self-instruction book that concisely and coherently discusses the principles of architectural design. The concepts open the reader to a broad world of visual thinking. Stimulating lessons challenge the lay person and trigger creative responses from even the most sophisticated designers. Dr. Nathan B. Winters' masterful ink drawins are works of art which clarify the concepts of the book. "Nathan B. Winters has taken on the task of encouraging us to look at and think about architecture. As he points out, much of our life is spent inand around buildings, yet in so may ways we are really not aware of them. Through a well arranged text, series of lessons and a wonderful selection of drawings he leads us into and through architecture of the present and of the past. If all of us had been exposed to this sort of approach in our early education, America's cities and towns would now be more pleasant places to live in." --David Gebhard Professor and Author Department of Art History University of California, Santa Barbara

Reviews

YA Winters' basic introduction to architecture for the nonspecialist develops the concepts of ``visual literacy'' by the extensive use of diagrams, drawings, and time lines. Recognition of historical periods and styles is reinforced over and over again through the use of basic architectural principles. Architecture Is Elementary is a great self-instruction book.

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Introduction

Why Study Architecture? Years of research indicate that the lay public has not grown much beyond the fourth grade level in visual literacy. The danger in leaving our culture dangling at the fourth grade level visually, is that it is a human tendency not to miss that which we do not know. Quality, then, when not imagined or recognized, is not even missed--much to the joy of mediocrity and her friends congregating on each corner.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gibbs Smith
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879051868
• ISBN 13: 9780879051860
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304