The Architectural Pattern Book
Author | : Ray Gindroz |
Publisher | : W W Norton & Company Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2004 |
ISBN-10 | : 0393731340 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780393731347 |
Rating | : 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Architectural Pattern Book written by Ray Gindroz and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2004 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the firm that produced The Urban Design Handbook comes a practical guide to developing and using pattern books -- a tradition stretching back to Vitruvius and Palladio, and the source of many beautiful houses -- to design neighborhoods in collaboration with production builders today. The Architectural Pattern Book traces the precedents of twenty-first-century manuals from the Renaissance to Georgian and Parisian urban assembly kits and colonial American pattern books. It documents the revival of the traditional architectural pattern book as a means of implementing urban design in large-scale developments by describing techniques and working methods of preparing guides for current design and construction processes, and it shows exemplars that will serve as models for contemporary designers.