Precedents in Architecture: Analytic Diagrams, Formative Ideas, and Partis

A timely update of the architectural classic on design analysis Precedents in Architecture, Fourth Edition provides a vocabulary for architectural analysis that illuminates the works of leading architects and aids architects and designers in creating their own designs. Thirty–eight leading architects are represented in this updated edition through an analysis of more than 100 buildings that are assessed using a diagrammatic technique applicable to any building. This impressive collection includes fourteen new buildings and seven new, innovative architects distinguished by the strength, quality, and interest of their designs. It delivers valuable guidance in analyzing architectural history as an evolutionary process by exploring the commonality of design ideas reflected in a broad range of structures by internationally renowned architects. Both novices and seasoned professionals will find Precedents in Architecture, Fourth Edition to be a very useful tool for enriching their design vocabulary and for the ongoing assessment of buildings found in today′s evolving landscape.

Prefaces / v Introduction / xiii Analysis / 1 Alvar Aalto / 8 Tadao Ando / 16 Erik Gunnar Asplund / 20 Stephane Beel / 28 Peter Q. Bohlin / 32 Mario Botta / 40 Filippo Brunelleschi / 48 David Chipperfield / 56 Sverre Fehn / 60 Romaldo Giurgola / 64 Nicholas Hawksmoor / 72 Herzog & de Meuron / 80 Steven Holl / 84 Toyo Ito / 88 Louis I. Kahn / 92 Tom Kundig / 100 Le Corbusier / 104 Claude Nicholas Ledoux / 112 Sigurd Lewerentz / 120 Edwin Lutyens / 124 Brian MacKay–Lyons / 132 Richard Meier / 136 Rafael Moneo / 144 Charles Moore / 148 Glenn Murcutt / 156 Jean Nouvel / 160 Andrea Palladio / 164 Thomas Phifer / 172 Henry Hobson Richardson / 176 Alvaro Siza / 184 James Stirling / 188 Louis Sullivan / 196 Yoshio Taniguchi / 204 Giuseppe Terrangi / 208 Ludwg Mies van der Rohe / 216 Robert Venturi / 224 Frank Lloyd Wright / 232 Peter Zumthor / 240 Formative Ideas / 245 Plan to Section or Elevation / 260 Unit to Whole / 267 Repetitive to Unique / 274 Additive and Subtractive 280 Symmetry and Balance / 282 Geometry / 288 Configuration Patterns / 302 Progressions /312 Reduction / 316 Index / 321 Index by Architect / 321 Index by Building / 330

Roger H. Clark, FAIA , is an ACSA Distinguished Professor of Architecture in the College of Design at North Carolina State University and a practicing architect. He has received more than fifty design awards, publishes regularly in professional journals, and coauthored Kinetic Architecture . Michael Pause, PhD , is a former professor in the College of Design at North Carolina State University. During his thirty–three–year tenure at NCSU, he received fourteen university awards for excellence in teaching, advising, and mentoring. He is currently a color and light, graphic and residential design consultant.