Tools for Ideas: Introduction to Architectural Design

Christian Gänshirt

Published by Birkhäuser 2021

Tools for Ideas

Introduction to Architectural Design

Christian Gänshirt

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035622089

Overview
Contents

About this book

Expanded and updated edition

This reference work on the core competence of architects and designers provides a thorough and considered overview of the tools and theories, means and methods and practices and possibilities of creative design. In this substantially expanded edition, a review of recent developments since the first edition has been added, the chapters on digital tools have been updated, and a new, extensive practice section describes the foundations of digital, research-based processes and social agendas in design.

The author "demonstrates compellingly that design is a synthesis of creative, technical and architectural skills coupled with academic research and reflection. Enlightening!" (Christian Thomas on the first edition). "Insight into the craft of design. Light in the darkness of how ideas take shape." (Jesko Fezer).

Comprehensive description of the means and methods of design
An eminently readable introduction to complex issues
Expanded and updated with digital tools and a new practice section

Author / Editor information

Dr.-Ing. Christian Gänshirt is an architect in Berlin and has taught design at leading schools in Germany, the USA and China.

Reviews

[…] Vielmehr hat der Autor eine kultur- und architekturhistorische Enzyklopädie zu allen wesentlichen Aspekten entwurfsbezogenen Denkens und entwurfsrelevanter Parameter, Prozesse und Handlungsfelder geschrieben. Und dies in einer Umfänglichkeit, Dichte und Tiefenschärfe, die zumindest derzeit vermutlich ihresgleichen suchen dürfte. Die Stärke des Buches ist meiner Ansicht nach die vielschichtige, geisteswissenschaftliche und architekturtheoretische Verknüpfung entwurfstangierender Themen von der Meta- bis zur Mikroebene […] Das macht das Buch für Kulturwissenschaftler, Bauhistoriker und Architekturtheoretiker außerordentlich lesenswert und spannend.

Frank Rolf Werner, HTA - History + Theory of Architecture

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
Introduction to the expanded and updated edition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
PART A: FUNDAMENTALS
Design and research Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
Architectural design Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
Terms and definitions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
Ways of designing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
PART B: TOOLS
Design tools Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
Gesture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Sketch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Language Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Design drawing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
Model Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Perspective view Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Photograph, film, video Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Calculation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Computer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
Criticism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
Criteria and value systems Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Theory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Otl Aicher: A theory of design Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
PART C: PRACTICE
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	284
Digital design Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	300
Research-based design Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	324
Social design Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	342
Postscript to the new edition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	364
Appendix
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	366
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	388
INDEX OF NAMES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
SUBJECT INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	393

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Edition: Expanded and updated ed.
Pages
- Main content: 400
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 150
- Other: 150 in bicolor

eBook

Published: October 26, 2020
ISBN: 9783035622089

Paperback

Published: October 26, 2020
ISBN: 9783035621747