Research Catalog

Title

Precedents in architecture / Roger H. Clark, Michael Pause.

Author

Clark, Roger H.

Publication

New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, ©1985.

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Details

Additional Authors

Pause, Michael.

Description

xiii, 224 pages : illustrations, plans; 21 x 28 cm

Subject

• Architectural design

Genre/Form

Architectural drawings.

Note

• Includes indexes.

Contents

• Analysis : Town Hall, Saynatsalo ; Vouksenniska Church, Imatra ; Enso-Gutzeit Company headquarters, Helsinki ; Cultural Center, Wolfsburg / Alvar Aalto -- Snellman house, Djursholm ; Woodland Chapel, Stockholm ; Lister County Courthouse, Solvesburg ; Stockholm Public Library, Stockholm / Erik Gunnar Asplund -- Old Sacristy, Florence ; Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence ; Church of San Maria degli Angeli, Florence ; CHurch of San Spirito, Florence / Filippo Brunelleschi -- Adult Learning Research Laboratory, Bryn Mawr ; Lang Music Building, Swarthmore ; Student union, Plattsburgh ; Tredyffrin Public Library, Stafford / Romaldo Giurgola -- Easton Neston, Northamptonshire ; St. George-In-The-East, Wapping ; Christ Church, Spitalfields ; St. Mary Woolnoth, London / Nicholas Hawksmoor -- Alfred N. Richards Medical Research Building, Philadelphia ; Salk Institute of Biological Studies, La Jolla ; Kimball Art Museum, Fort Worth ; Library Exeter / Louis I. Kahn -- Villa Savoye, Poissy ; Unite d'Habitation, Marsailles ; Notre Dame du Haut Chapel, Ronchamp ; The Palace of Assembly, Chandigarh / Le Corbusier -- Hotel de Montmorency, Paris ; Hotel Guimard, Paris ; Theater, Besancon ; Director's house, Saltworks of Arc and Senans / Claude Nicholas Ledoux -- Homewood, Knebworth ; Nashdom, Taplow ; Heathcote, Ilkley ; The Salutation, Sandwich / Edwin Lutyens -- Moore house, Orinda ; Condominium I, Sea Ranch ; Hines house, Sea Ranch ; Burns house, Santa Monica Canyon / Charles Moore -- Villa Foscari, Malcontenta ; Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice ; La Rotonda, Vicenza ; Redentore Church, Venice / Andrea Palladio -- Trinity Church, Boston ; Sever Hall, Cambridge ; Allegheny County Courthouse, Pittsburgh ; J.J. Glessner house, Chicago / Henry Hobson Richardson -- Engineering BUilding, Leicester ; History Faculty Building, Cambridge ; Florey Building, Oxford ; Olivetti Training School, Haslemere / James Stirling -- Auditorium Building, Chicago ; Wainwright Building, St. Louis ; Carson Pirie and Scott Store, Chicago ; National Farmers' Bank, Owatonna / Louis Sullivan -- Vanna Venturi house, Philadelphia ; Fire station, number 4, Columbus ; Peter Brant house, Greenwich ; Carll Tucker III house, Mount Kisco / Robert Venturi -- Unity Temple, Oak Park ; Frederick G. Robie house, Chicago ; Fallingwater, Ohiopyle ; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York --
• Formative ideas : Plan to section or elevation : Equal ; One to one-half ; Analogous ; Proportional ; Inverse -- Unit to whole : Unite equals whole ; Units contained in whole ; Whole greater than sum of units ; Units aggregate to form whole -- Repetitive to unique : Unique surrounded by repetitive ; Unique by transformation of repetitive ; Unique in repetitive field ; Unique added to repetitive ; Unique defined by repetitive -- Additive and subtractive -- Symmetry and balance : Symmetry ; Balance by configuration ; Balance by geometry ; Balance by positive and negative -- Geometry : Basic geometry ; Circle and square ; Rectangle overlapped by circle ; Two squares ; Nine-square ; Four-square ; 1.4 and 1.6 rectangles ; Geometric derivatives ; Rotated, shifted, and overlapped ; Pinwheel, radial, and spiral ; Grid -- Configuration patterns : Linear: use ; Linear: circulation ; Central: use ; Central: circulation ; Double center ; Cluster ; Nested ; Concentric ; Bi-nuclear -- Progressions : Hierarchy ; Transition ; Transformation ; Mediation -- Reduction : Large plus small reduction ; Part of whole reduction.

ISBN

• 0442216688
• 9780442216689
• 0442216661 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

84003543

OCLC

• ocm10457419
• 10457419
• SCSB-615736

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library