Diagramming the Big Idea
Methods for Architectural Composition
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Product details:
- Edition number 3
- Publisher Taylor & Francis
- Date of Publication 24 May 2026
- ISBN 9781032937601
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages344 pages
- Size 279x216 mm
- Weight 1300 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2846 Illustrations, color 681
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Short description:
Becoming an architect is a daunting task. This book introduces the fundamentals of design thinking by illustrating how architects make and use diagrams to clarify their understanding of both specific architectural projects and universal principles of form and order.
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Becoming an architect is a daunting task. Beyond the acquisition of new skills and procedures, beginning designers face an entirely unfamiliar mode of knowledge: design thinking.
In Diagramming the Big Idea, Jeffrey Balmer and Michael T. Swisher introduce the fundamentals of design thinking by illustrating how architects make and use diagrams to clarify their understanding of both specific architectural projects and universal principles of form and order. With accessible, step-by-step procedures that interweave diagrams, drawings and models, the authors demonstrate how to compose clear and revealing diagrams.
This newly revised edition features:
- An expanded array of global and contemporary works of architecture as precedents that demonstrate fundamental aspects of architectural composition.
- Significantly enhanced coloration throughout, including 1400+ revised and new illustrations across 330 pages.
- Three new illustrated essays adding depth to additional components of design thinking.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Setting the Stage. 1. Introduction. 2. Sorting through ideas. 3. Order First. Part II: The First Project Set. 4. Design & drawing fundamentals. 5. Building on proportion. 6. Conventions in Design. Part III: The third project set. 7. Starting in three dimensions. 8. Models & diagrams. Part IV: Precedents. 9. Precedent diagrams in two dimensions. 10. Precedent diagrams in three dimensions. Part V: Resources
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