Library Guides: Design Library Guide: DSGN 2100

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Keywords
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Archetyp* architect*
Precedent* architect*
architect* typolog*

"building types"
"architecture theory"

Subject Headings
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Analysing Architecture by Simon Unwin
Call Number: ONLINE
ISBN: 9780415489287
Publication Date: 2009
A notebook of architectural strategies to present an engaging introduction to elements and concepts in architectural design. Examples are drawn from across the world and many periods of architectural history to illustrate analytical themes and to show how drawing can be used to study architecture. (6 concurrent users)
Precedents in Architecture by Roger H. Clark; Michael Pause
Call Number: NA 2750 .C55 2005 (Arch Library: Reserves)
ISBN: 0471479748
Publication Date: 2004
A revision of the architectural classic on design analysis, this work provides a vocabulary for architectural analysis that illuminates the works of leading architects and aids architects and designers in creating their own designs.
Residential Buildings by Gunter Pfeifer; Per Brauneck
Call Number: NA7110 .P44 2015 (Arch. Library Reserves)
ISBN: 9783035603286
Publication Date: 2015
To continue developing existing building types in an intelligent way is a crucial task in the field of residential building. For this typology of residential buildings, the authors have developed systematic new presentations of most innovative types. Each individual part lays out the possibilities for using and transforming a particular form of residential structure: the courtyard house, the row house, the town house and the freestanding house.