Tools for Ideas: An Introduction to Architectural Design

Christian Gänshirt

ISBN 10: 3764375779 / ISBN 13: 9783764375775

Published by Birkhäuser Architecture, 2007

About this Item

Pristine new copy of the first edition trade paperback. This introductory presentation describes and analyzes the theories, strategies, and tools of creative design for the purposes of practical work. With thoughtfulness and expertise, it opens the reader's eyes to the processes that underlie design and demonstrates different ways of communicating about complex design work. The first section focuses on the much-discussed relationship between design and research, between architecture and the sciences. The second section describes basic design approaches, from Vitruvius and Alberti through Erwin Panofsky and Wolfgang Kemp. The third and largest section presents the elementary tools of design, from gestures and words through drawings, models, and simulations to critique, all as instruments of creative design in architecture and its related fields.rds through drawings, models, and simulations to critique, all as instruments of creative design in architecture and its related fields. simulations to critique, all as instruments of creative design in architecture and its related fields.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tools for Ideas: An Introduction to Architectural Design
• Publisher: Birkhäuser Architecture
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3764375779
• ISBN 13: 9783764375775
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture & Engineering
  • Art & Photography
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

This introductory presentation describes and analyzes the theories, strategies, and tools of creative design for the purposes of practical work. With thoughtfulness and expertise, it opens the reader’s eyes to the processes that underlie design and demonstrates different ways of communicating about complex design work.

About the Author

Dipl-Ing. Christian Gänshirt is an independent architect in Berlin. He studied architecture with Jo Coenen and others at the Technische Universität Karlsruhe (Research University Karlsruhe) and with Luigi Snozzi at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He has worked for many architects as a cost planner and construction supervisor (including Alvaro Siza at Vitra’s production hall). Since 1998 he has been working to impart knowledge of the theory and practice of design, including as an assistant professor in the Design Department of the Technische Universität Cottbus (Cottbus Technical University). He is co-editor of the Internationale Zeitschrift für Theorie und Wissenschaft der Architektur Wolkenkuckucksheim (International Journal of Architectural Theory Cloud-Cuckoo-Land, a web journal).