Design Library Guide

Aimed primarily at those wishing to become professional architects, it also offers those in disciplines related to architecture (from archaeology to stage design, garden design to installation art), a clear and accessible insight into the workings of this rich and fascinating subject.

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.

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.