The architectural project
By: by Alfonso Corona-Martínez ; edited by Malcolm Quantrill ; translated by Alfonso Corona-Martínez and Malcolm Quantrill
Contributors: Quantrill, Malcolm, 1931-
Edition: 1st ed
Series: Studies in architecture and culture -- no. 6
Publisher: Texas A & M University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Architectural design; Architectural design -- Study and teaching
Work titles: Ensayo sobre el proyecto.
Description: "The Architectural Project considers the practice of architectural design as it has developed during the last two centuries. In this challenging interpretation of design education and its effect on design process and products, Argentinean scholar Alfonso Corona-Martinez emphasizes the distinction between an architectural project, created in the architect's mind and materialized as a set of drawings on paper, and the realized three-dimensional building.".

"Corona-Martinez demonstrates how representation plays a substantial role in determining both the notion and the character of architecture, and he traces this relationship from the Rennaissance into the Modern era, giving detailed considerations of Functionalism and Typology.

His argument clarifies the continuity in the practice of design method through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a continuity that has been obscured by the emphasis on changing goals instead of design procedures, and examines the influences of modernity and the legend of the Bauhaus.".

"Architectural schooling, he suggests, has had a decisive role in the transmission of these practices. He concludes that the methods formalized in Beaux Arts teaching are not only still with us but are in good part responsible for the stylistic instability that haunts Modern architecture."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-198) and index
Table of contents: title: Design processes; title: Description generation; title: Design education; title: The two faces of functionalism; title: Typology; title: Development of the project: the elements of architecture; title: Elements of composition; title: Changes in design method: the future in the present