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More than a decade in the making, this is a textbook of architecture rich with design techniques and useful for every architect whether a first-year students or experienced practicing architects. The book teaches the reader how to design by adapting to human needs and sensibilities, yet independently of any particular style. It explains much of what people instinctively know about architecture, and puts that knowledge for the first time in a concise, understandable form. There has not been such a book treating the very essence of architecture. Preface by HRH the Prince of Wales.
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Readers should definitely not pay outrageous prices for the out-of-print first edition of this book! The second edition is available for less than $23, and is more useful because it includes an Index and new pages.
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"A Theory of Architecture demonstrates how mathematics and the social sciences offer keys to designing a humane architecture. In this brilliant tome Salingaros explains why many modern buildings are neither beautiful nor harmonious and, alternatively, how architects and patrons can employ scale, materials and mathematical logic to design structures which are exciting, nourishing, and visually delightful. Anyone who is interested in how architecture and culture are intimately linked should put this on their reading list." -- Duncan G. Stroik "In the future this work, along with Christopher Alexander's, will be standard texts for Architecture 101. The text has been handled with great care to help its readers understand the complex issues while at the same time making it accessible to the largest potential audience. It beautifully lays out how we have arrived at a modern world tendency away from living structure and toward non-living structure. I feel fortunate to live in a time that I believe will be the beginning of a great sea change toward living structure and a more wholesome environment. I thank Dr. Salingaros for his efforts toward that movement." -- Dean A. Dykstra
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- PublisherISI Distributed Titles
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 3937954074
- ISBN 13 9783937954073
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages278
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