Architect
Why draw?
There is an undisguised air of evangelism running through this book, for it seeks to encourage students of architecture, craft and design to forsake...
The benefits of drawing
The act of drawing is an important starting point for the intellectual process we call ‘design’. To be able to draw a chair or...
Neorationalism
The Italian movement known there as la Tendenza explored a way of building that was at once new and responsive to the shapes, forms...
Brutalism
The style known as brutalism was a bold, distinctive version of modernism that became popular in the 1960s. Typified by extensive use of concrete...
Heritage
The way we have looked at historical buildings has changed greatly over the past 150 years. From being all but ignored by the authorities,...
Segregated planning
Mass car ownership and the increased traffic it brought posed a major challenge to architects and planners. For decades, the obvious solution seemed to...
Dymaxion design
Richard Buckminster Fuller combined the roles of engineer, inventor and architect to produce a number of innovative designs, the most famous of which were...
Organic architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright
For thousands of years writers on architecture have compared the creations of builders and architecture to the natural world. The great American architect Frank...
Art Deco
In the 1920s a number of French designers promoted a style that made ornament modern. They turned their backs on traditional classical and Gothic...
Minimalism
One of the most familiar interior design styles of recent decades is minimalism—plain walls, surfaces uninterrupted by ornament or moldings, zero clutter. Fashionable as...
