Deviations: Designing Architecture - A Manual - Softcover

Angélil, Marc; Hebel, Dirk

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3764388323 ISBN 13: 9783764388324

Publisher: Birkhäuser Architecture, 2008

Synopsis

A manual that conveys the fundamentals of architectonic design while also providing a novel didactic approach to the presentation of course material: individual design steps are illustrated by student projects.

About this title

From the Back Cover

DEVIATIONS, a handbook and users’ guide on architectural design pedagogy, pursues the strategy of the Trojan horse, infiltrating a given system’s practices in order to transform them from within. While documenting the opening moves of the architectural design curriculum at the ETH Zurich, the manual exposes teaching to a series of tests. It promotes a departure from the seemingly familiar and stable grounds of recognized design approaches in pursuit of more open tactics – initiating a plea for a new type of architectural practice. Rather than opposing the established order of things, the approach embraces this order while simultaneously working both with and against manufactured conventions. Taking on the operative mechanisms of everyday practice, median standards, and normative action as the very stuff of design, concepts and techniques emerge whose foci are not based on form, but on how architecture might perform. In addition to the orientation provided within the individual chapters, a graphic navigational structure guides readers through the book as a whole and enables them to scan through the work or focus on specific projects. Following the framework of an academic year, the book is divided into a series of sections devoted to the thematic areas: space, program, technology, context and form. Marc Angélil and Dirk Hebel have taught architectural design at several universities in Europe and the United States. Over the last few years, they have been collaboratively engaged in a didactic experiment reframing the introductory design course at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich.

About the Author

Marc M. Angélil is professor of design in the Department of Architecture at the ETH Zürich. Dirk Hebel is the senior assistant professor associated with Prof. Angélil’s chair; he also teaches at Syracuse University in New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Birkhäuser Architecture
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 3764388323
• ISBN 13: 9783764388324
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 687