Seeing and Making in Architecture: Design Exercises: Design Exercises

by Taiji Miyasaka

You always aim to achieve that moment of insight that leads to ingenuity and novelty in your design, but sometimes it remains elusive. This book presents a variety of techniques for mapping and making hands-on design/build projects, and relates this work to real architecture. It helps you to learn new ways of seeing and making that will enhance your creative design process and enable you to experience moments that lead to ingenuity in design. Each of the books two parts, Seeing and Making, is organized according to technique, which ranges from quantitative analysis and abstraction to pattern and scale, to provide you with a framework for mapping and hands-on exercises. Interviews with architects Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Atelier Bow-Wow) and Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto (Reiser + Umemoto) give you perspective on using these exercises in practice.

177 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Kara Zorman · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Buildings don't talk, but they do narrate. It is our job to speak on their behalf, which leads to inward observation of architecture."

"It is another nature which speaks to the camera, rather than to the eye." (Walter Benjamin)

"I am interested in the fact that architectire not focused on humans is actually more comfortable for people."