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Book SynopsisNearly every work of architecture can be characterized by specific approaches to forming and centering. An awareness of these “underpinnings” would facilitate a more informed approach to architectural design problems, as well as a deeper understanding of the central issues (and flaws) embodied by completed works of architecture. But the addressing of such topics has generally remained multifarious and diverse: more in the nature of a collection of independent issues than an overarching analytical argument. In this book, fresh looks at such issues are assembled and recast into a fully integrated narrative, based on two foundational and complementary aspects of architectural design: those that give shape and those that give focus—forming and centering.
The author uses an equally weighted interplay of discussion and diagram, with over 450 illustrations throughout the book. In addition, the text includes many links to further information online in the form of narratives, photographs, delineations, and contextual views.
Trade ReviewBehind—perhaps below—all the learned esthetic and technical aspects of designing a building are a multitude of factors hidden in the hindbrain, says Moffett, primal aspects that remain rather vague and ill-understood and contribute to a sense of enigma. He focuses on these elements, dusting them off, lighting their dark corners, and revealing their own internal set of relationships. Beginning with forming, he discusses addition, replication, subtraction, deformation, dimensionalities, and formative hybrids. Then the turns to centering and covers limiting cases, linking cases, and centering hybrids. -- Annotation ©2017 * (protoview.com) *
Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I: FORMING 1. Unitary 2. Addition 3. Replication 4. Subtraction 5. Deformation 6. Dimensionalities 7. Formative Hybrids PART II: CENTERING 8. Limiting Cases 9. Linking Cases 10. Centering Hybrids 11. Conclusions Index
