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Architecture is a doing word. 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...

This book offers student architects a series of exercises that will develop their capacity for doing architecture. 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). The three books taken together deal with the three aspects of learning: description, analysis of examples, and practice.

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 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.

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• Prelude: The 'Architecture'
• General Introduction
• Part 1 Fundamentals
• Exercise 1 The Substance without Substance
• Exercise 2 Flipping Perceptions
• Exercise 3 Axis (and its Denial)
• Part 2 Geometries of Being
• Exercise 4 Alignment Exercise
• Exercise 5 Anthropometry
• Exercise 6 Social Geometry
• Exercise 7 The Geometry of Making
• Exercise 8 The Geometry of Planning
• Exercise 9 Ideal Geometry
• Exercise 10 Symmetry and Asymmetry
• Exercise 11 Playing with Geometry
• Part 3 Out into the Real World
• Exercise 12 Making Places in the Landscape
• Postlude: Drawing Plans and Sections

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CHOICE Review

Though the liberal arts curriculum cultivates analytical skills, the architectural-design curriculum adds the value of nurturing synthesis--assembling disparate elements to create something new. Unwin (emer., Univ. of Dundee, Scotland) has published on the former (Analysing Architecture, 3rd ed., rev. and enlarged, 2009) and with this book pursues the far more elusive goal of codifying the design process. Beware the table of contents, which lists numerous exercises in each of the three sections ("Fundamentals," "Geometries of Being," "Out into the Real World"). In fact, the greater part of the text consists of the author's protracted prose, and the exercises serve more as illustrations to it. A glance at the author's fascinating online notebooks leads to the conclusion that he excels at sharing his way of seeing more than at teaching readers how to think independently in architectural terms. Although the hand-drawn illustrations are handsome (and very much in Francis D. K. Ching's style), the absence of distinct captions (identifying data lie within the prose) and the disproportional Courier typeface (reading it is a chore) are deficits. This publication does not supersede Ching's more comprehensible Architecture--Form, Space, & Order (3rd ed., 2007). Summing Up: Not recommended. P. Glassman Felician College

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Simon Unwin has helped students learn to think as architects for over three decades. He is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of Dundee, Scotland. Previously he taught architectural design and analysis at the Welsh School of Architecture in Cardiff University. He has lived in Great Britain and Australia, and taught or lectured on his work in China, Israel, India, Sweden, Turkey, Canada and the United States as well as at other schools in the UK and Europe. Simon Unwin's books are used in schools of architecture around the world. Analysing Architecture has been translated into Persian, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Korean and is currently being translated into Portuguese, Russian and Arabic. He continues to teach at the Welsh School of Architecture in Cardiff.