![]() ![]() He is a registered architect but concentrates on writing about architecture and teaching architectural analysis and design. Simon Unwin is a freelance writer and lecturer based in Cardiff, UK. ![]() The exercises deal with themes such as place-making, learning through drawing, framing, light,, uses of geometry, stage setting, eliciting emotional responses, the genetics of detail and so forth. The book offers twelve exercises, each divided into a short series of tasks aimed at developing a particular theme or area of architectural capacity. ![]() The three books taken together deal with the three aspects of description, analysis of examples, and practice. Exercises in Architecture builds on and supplements the methodology for architectural analysis presented in the author’s previous book Analysing Architecture (third edition, Routledge, 2009) and demonstrated in his Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand (Routledge, 2010). This book offers student architects a series of exercises that will develop their capacity for doing architecture. You can learn a great deal about the workings of architecture through analysing examples but a fuller understanding of its powers and potential comes through practice, by trying to do it. ![]()
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