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Architecture Workbook: Design through Motive
Peter Cook
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Description for Architecture Workbook: Design through Motive
Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: AMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 189. .
Organised into 9 parts that highlight a wide range of architectural motives, such as 'Architecture as Theatre', 'Stretching the Vocabulary' and ‘The City of Large and Small’, the workbook provides inspiring key themes for readers to take their cue from when initiating a design. Motives cover a wide-range of work that epitomise the theme. These include historical and Modernist examples, things observed in the street, work by current innovative architects and from Cook’s own rich archive, weaving together a rich and vibrant visual scrapbook of the everyday and the architectural, and past and present.
Organised into 9 parts that highlight a wide range of architectural motives, such as 'Architecture as Theatre', 'Stretching the Vocabulary' and ‘The City of Large and Small’, the workbook provides inspiring key themes for readers to take their cue from when initiating a design. Motives cover a wide-range of work that epitomise the theme. These include historical and Modernist examples, things observed in the street, work by current innovative architects and from Cook’s own rich archive, weaving together a rich and vibrant visual scrapbook of the everyday and the architectural, and past and present.
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781118965191
SKU
V9781118965191
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Ref
99-2
About Peter Cook
Peter Cook is the founder of Archigram, the former Director of the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) in London and previous Chair of Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College, London. A pivotal figure within the global architectural world for over half a century, in 2007 he was knighted by The Queen for his services to architecture. ... Read more
Reviews for Architecture Workbook: Design through Motive
"Cook remains an outspoken provocateur and his book is a visual feast of classics and forgotten delights" (RIBA Journal, July 2016) "... a stimulating primer for architecture students and practitioners alike." (Building Engineer, April 2016)