A revision of the architectural classic on design analysis

Precedents in Architecture, Third 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-one leading architects are represented in this updated Third Edition in examinations of more than 100 structures assessed through a diagrammatic technique that is applicable to any structure. This impressive collection includes sixteen new buildings and eight innovative architects distinguished by the strength, quality, and interest of their designs. Readers will find 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, Third Edition a very useful tool for enriching their design vocabulary and for the ongoing assessment of buildings found in today's evolving landscape.

To find a theory of architecture that transcends historical styles, Clark and Pause, both from North Carolina State University, offer analyses of 104 buildings presented in conventional drawings and then assessed for archetypal patterns or formative ideas. They use a diagrammatic technique applicable to any structure and provide a vocabulary for architectural analysis that is useful for considering older works as well as future designs. The third edition adds 16 new buildings to the works considered.
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Both novices and seasoned professionals will find Precedents in Architecture, Third Edition a very useful tool for enriching their design vocabulary and for the ongoing assessment of buildings found in today's evolving landscape.

Precedents in Architecture provides a vocabulary for architectural analysis to help readers understand the works of leading architects and create his or her own designs. The works of twenty-three internationally known architects and eight new, distinguished architects are examined through the help of a unique diagrammatic technique, which can be used to analyze existing buildings.

Prefaces.

Introduction.

Analysis.

Alvar Aalto.

Tadao Ando.

Erik Gunnar Asplund.

Peter Q. Bohlin.

Mario Botta.

Filippo Brunelleschi.

Sverre Fehn.

Romaldo Giurgola.

Nicholas Hawksmoor.

Herzog & de Meuron.

Steven Holl.

Louis I. Kahn.

Le Corbusier.

Claude Nicholas Ledoux.

Sigurd Lewerentz.

Edwin Lutyens.

Richard Meier.

Rafael Moneo.

Charles Moore.

Glenn Murcutt.

Jean Nouvel.

Andrea Palladio.

Henry Hobson Richardson.

James Stirling.

Louis Sullivan.

Yoshio Taniguchi.

Giuseppe Terragni.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

Robert Venturi.

Frank Lloyd Wright.

Peter Zumthor.

Formative Ideas.

Plan to Section or Elevation.

Unit to Whole.

Repetitive to Unique.

Additive and Subtractive.

Symmetry and Balance.

Geometry.

Configuration Patterns.

Progressions.

Reduction.

Index.

Index by Architect.

Index by Building.