Architecture workbook : design through motive / Peter Cook.

"Rich in examples and immediate in narrative, the book proffers the sort of insights that you might gain from a chat with Peter Cook in person"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cook, Peter, 1936- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley, 2016.
Series:Online access with DDA: Askews (Architecture)
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Table of Contents:
  • TitlePage
  • Copyright
  • Acknowledgments
  • Motive 1 Architecture as Theatre
  • Indulging in Delight
  • Discovering Novelty in the Known
  • Honing In on the Theatrical Statement
  • Motive 2 Stretching the Vocabulary
  • Wayward Expressionism
  • From the Transparent ... to the Translucent ... to the Solid ... and Back Again
  • Augmenting the Language of Architecture
  • Stealing from Elsewhere
  • Hidden City
  • The Swiss Cottage Tower
  • Tel Aviv
  • Vocabulary as a Force in Itself
  • Motive 3 University Life and its Ironies
  • University Life Via the Back Door
  • The Campus Phenomenon.
  • The Städelschule Kantine, Frankfurt
  • Departments of Law and Central Administration, Vienna University of Economics and Business
  • Abedian School of Architecture, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland
  • Arts University Bournemouth: Drawing on the Studio Tradition
  • Motive 4 From Ordinary to Agreeable
  • Delightful Functionalism and Structured Escape
  • Strips and Stations
  • Reinvigorating Suburbia
  • Playful Masterplanning
  • Inspiration in Unexpected Places
  • Motive 5 The English Path and the English Narrative
  • Returning to Arcadia
  • The Pastoral
  • Veg House.
  • The English Art of Implied Observation
  • Motive 6 New Places and Strange Bedfellows
  • Experiencing America
  • A Taste of Japan
  • Back in Europe
  • Austria and the Kunsthaus Graz
  • The Fascination of Foreignness
  • Motive 7 Can We Learn from Silliness?
  • Kiosks: An International Phenomenon of Fun
  • What Can Architecture Learn from Kiosks?
  • Motive 8 The City
  • Then the Town
  • Assimilating References
  • The Three-Dimensional City
  • Making Reluctant Cities Get Real
  • Motive 9 On Drawing, Designing, Talking and Building
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index
  • Picture Credits
  • EULA.