Tools for Ideas: Introduction to Architectural Design

✍ Scribed by Christian Gänshirt

• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 400
• Edition: Expanded and updated ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction to the expanded and updated edition
PART A: FUNDAMENTALS
Design and research
Architectural design
Terms and definitions
Ways of designing
PART B: TOOLS
Design tools
Gesture
Sketch
Language
Design drawing
Model
Perspective view
Photograph, film, video
Calculation
Computer
Criticism
Criteria and value systems
Theory
Otl Aicher: A theory of design
PART C: PRACTICE
Introduction
Digital design
Research-based design
Social design
Postscript to the new edition
Appendix
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
INDEX OF NAMES
SUBJECT INDEX