Why Should I Read This Book
If you ever wished for a book - a concise textbook - that could explain in clear and unambiguous terms, with short and crisp examples - the processes - the principles - the true nature of Architectural Design - then here it is !
Of the few books written on Architectural Design, this is the only one - that approaches the subject at such a deeply philosophical level, yet uses words so sweet and simple, that they could be understood (and even enjoyed) by anyone and everyone !
This unique book eloquently explains much of what is so ‘fashionably scrambled up’ in the B.Arch course. Written with the designing hard and hardly reading students in mind - this book is a must read for Architectural students, who are trying hard to make some sense out of the mystified world that Architectural Design has largely been abandoned to become !
This simple book effortlessly does, what has been due for far too long - and strangely, has never been done before, as effectively, by any other book. This marvelous book, irrespective of your proficiency in Architectural Design - will take you light-years ahead, in a few hours - into thinking like the ‘Great Architects’ !
Reading this book would hardly take you three hours, but in those three hours - you would have learnt more about Architectural Design - than …
Perhaps it would be more graceful (and less controversial) to confidently leave it to satisfied readers like you - to complete the sentence !
Table of Contents
- Why Should I Read This Book ?
- How Should I Read This Book ?
- Chapter 1 : What is Architecture ?
- Chapter 2 : Premise, Process & Presentation
- Chapter 3 : Crits, Complains & CPRs
- Chapter 4 : What exactly are CPRs ?
- CPR 1 : “We are not here to get these designs made via you - we are here to make you Architects via these designs.”
- CPR 2 : “Doodle diagrams drunk - sculpt spaces sober.”
- CPR 3 : “Start with A B n C - they will lead you to D - and never start with your D - without first making a D.”
- CPR 4 : “Never start your D with Z - Z is not for A.”
- CPR 5 : “Having started with A B n C which led you to D - strive for the elusive E - it is the essence of all D.”
- CPR 6 : “But E in its true sense is beyond human reach - since all projects harbor and reflect an inherent bias.”
- CPR 7 : “In Architecture, concepts are of three types - AA concepts - BB concepts - CC concepts.”
- CPR 8 : “Designing a house - is not like designing a mouse.”
- CPR 9 : “Design of human origin - is like laying a chess-board; design found in nature - is like the game in progress.”
- CPR 10 : “Let us meditate on a fundamental design question - that is it possible to design a space to meditate in.”
- CPR 11 : “Symmetry is not something forbidden - but it does need to be adopted with some discretion.”
- CPR 12 : “Biases are never absolute - never 0% - never 100%; they keep shifting - like sliders on a music mixing console.”
- CPR 13 : “Making Architecture - is not like making a movie.”
- CPR 14 : “Rectilinear forms are so ubiquitous in our built fabric - probably because of the flexibility that rectangles offer.”
- CPR 15 : “Some functions happen at B - some happen along A to B - seamlessly merging the two is a rather delicate art.”
- CPR 16 : “You will only end up as an eccentric philosopher - doing nothing more than doodling diagrams.”
- CPR 17 : “The secret of true confidence - is to master the subject.”
- CPR 18 : “Architectural Design is always nestled in a context.”
- CPR 19 : “Architecture has something to do in everything - and everything to do in nothing.”
- CPR 20 : “Architectural Design is like fishing - both in terms of learning and teaching.”
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