How big is Moscow’s Red Square in comparison to Tiananmen Square? Why are there fewer public squares in Japan than in Italy? What lessons might be found in the plan of Savannah, Georgia’s historic district? To Scale is a collection of plans of urban spaces drawn at the same scale to help answer these questions by providing a single and accurate resource of urban plans for architects, urban designers, planners and teachers, and students. The book contains one hundred figure-ground plans from seventy-eight cities around the world, describing an identical area (half a kilometer square) for each urban space. Accompanying each plan are photographs, diagrams and text that illustrate essential aspects of the plan or urban space for the designer. This compilation is an excellent resource helping to visualize, compare and reconceptualize urban design for students wanting to understand the lessons of existing cities and the making of urban spaces.

To Scale: One Hundred Urban Plans

JENKINS, Eric

Reference

Routledge

To Scale: One Hundred Urban Plans (Revised Edition)

Special Affects: Cinema, Animation and the Translation of Consumer Culture

Special Affects retells the emergence of Disney animation and classical Hollywood cinema from the perspective of affect and the embodied modes of generating affection. The emergence of these media enables new modes of perception that create 'special' sensations of wonder, astonishment, marvel and the fantastic. Such affections subsequently become mined by consumer industries for profit, thereby explaining the connection between media and consumerism that today seems inherent to the culture industry. Such modes and their affections are also translated into ideology, as American culture seeks to make sense of the sociocultural changes accompanying these new media, particularly as specific versions of American Dream narratives. Special Affects is the first extended exploration of the connection between media and consumerism, and the first book to extensively apply Deleuzian film theory to animation. Its exploration of the connection between the animated form and consumerism, and its re-examination of twentieth-century animation from the perspective of affect, makes this an engaging and essential read for film-philosophy scholars and students.

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Edinburgh University Press

The book is a guide for students and teachers to understand the need for, the role of and the methods and techniques of freehand analytical sketching in architecture. The presentation focuses on drawing as an approach to and a phase of architectural design. The conceptual goal of this approach is to use drawing not as illustration or depiction, but exploration. The first part of the book discusses underlying concepts of freehand sketching in design education and practice as a complement to digital technologies. The main component is a series of chapters that constitute a typology of fundamental issues in architecture and urban design; for instance, issues of "facade" are illustrated with sketch diagrams that show how façades can be explored and sketched through a series of specific questions and step-by-step procedures. This book is especially timely in an age in which the false conflict between "traditional vs. digital" gives way to multiple design tools, including sketching. It fosters understanding of the essential human ability to investigate the designed and natural world through freehand drawing.Among the 250 buildings and spaces drawn and analyzed are: Church on the Water, Tadao Ando Santa Maria della Salute, Baldassare Longhena Frederick C. Robie House, Frank Lloyd Wright Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, Diller Scofidio + Renfro Altes Museum, Karl Friedrich Schinkel Philips-Exeter library, Louis Kahn Tate Modern, Herzog &amp; de Meuron Berlin Treptow Crematorium, Axel Schultes Breakfast Room in Sir John Soane's Museum, John Soane Tugendhat House, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe IKEA diagrams New England Holocaust Memorial, Stanley Saitowitz Berlin Am Kupfergraben 10 Gallery, David Chipperfield Center for Architecture, 1218 Arch Street, Philadelphia Palazzo Chiericati, Andrea Palladio The Netherlands Architecture Institute, Jo Coenen &amp; Co Architec Casa en Bunyola, Francisco Cifuentes ts Casa 6, Ochoalcubo, Marbello, Cecilla Puga Traditional Turkish House Parc de la Villette, Bernard Tschumi Dumbarton Oaks Gardens, Beatrix Farrand McCormick Tribune Campus Center, OMA Spielbudenplatz, Hamburg Place des Vosges, Paris Deanery Garden, Edwin Lutyens Olympic Sculpture Park, Weiss Manfredi Galleria Umberto I, Emanuele Rocco, Oxford University, From Broad Street through Bodleian Library courtyard to Radcliffe Camera

Drawn to Design: Analyzing Architecture Through Freehand Drawing

Architecture

Birkhauser

About the Author\nEric Jenkins, Architect and Professor of Architecture\nFor Those Who Learn And Those Who Teach 
The book is a guide for students and teachers to understand the need for, the role of and the methods and techniques of freehand analytical sketching in architecture. The presentation focuses on drawing as an approach to and phase of architectural design. 
The conceptual goal of this approach is to use drawing not as illustration or depiction, but as exploration. The first part of the book discusses underlying concepts of freehand sketching in design education and practice as a complement to digital technologies. The main component is a series of chapters that constitute a typology of fundamental issues in architecture and urban design; for instance, issues of "façade" are illustrated with sketch diagrams that show how façades can be explored and sketched through a series of specific questions and step-by-step procedures. 
In the expanded and updated edition, a new part explores the questions and experiences of large architectural offices in applying freehand drawing in the practice of architectural design. 
This book is especially timely in an age in which the false conflict between "traditional vs. digital" gives way to multiple design tools, including sketching. It fosters understanding of the essential human ability to investigate the designed and the natural world through freehand drawing.

Drawn to Design: Analyzing Architecture Through Freehand Drawing -- Expanded and Updated Edition

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To Scale: One Hundred Urban Plans

To Scale: One Hundred Urban Plans (Revised Edition)

Special Affects: Cinema, Animation and the Translation of Consumer Culture

Special Affects: Cinema, Animation and the Translation of Consumer Culture

Drawn to Design: Analyzing Architecture Through Freehand Drawing

Drawn to Design: Analyzing Architecture Through Freehand Drawing -- Expanded and Updated Edition