Thinking Design

Blueprint for an Architecture of Typology

Andread Lechner

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Park Books
01 February 2022

Theory of architecture; Architectural structure & design; Research & information: general

A clearly distilled architectural atlas based on 144 major designs from ancient times to the twenty-first century, showcasing the cultural dimension of building.

However disparate the styles or ethoses, beneath architecture's pluralism lies a number of categorical typologies. In Thinking Design, Austrian architect Andreas Lechner has condensed his profound typological understanding into a single book.

Divided into three chapters Tectonics, Type, and Topos Lechner reflects upon twelve fundamental typologies: theatre, museum, library, government, office, amenity, religion, retail, fabrication, education, coercion, and health. Encompassing a total of 144 carefully selected examples of classic designs and buildings, ranging across an epic sweep from antiquity to the present, the book not only explains the fundamentals of collective architectural knowledge but traces the interconnected reiterations that lie at the heart of architecture's transformative power.

As such, Thinking Design provides a new building theory rooted in the act of composition as an aesthetic determinant of architectural form. This emphasis on design process over the more commonplace aspects of function, purpose or atmosphere makes it more than a mere planning manual, instead revealing the cultural dimension of architecture that gives it its ability to transcend not only use cycles but entire epochs. Lavishly illustrated with newly drawn elevation or axonometric projection, floor plan and section for each example, it does not only serve to invigorate the underlying ideas but make it an ideal comparative compendium.

AUTHOR: Andreas Lechner runs his own architcture and research practice in Graz, Austria, and teaches as an associate professor at Graz University of Technology's Faculty of Architecture.

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A unique building manual drawing on humanity's accumulated architectural knowledge to inform and assist today's design processes and design work .

A clearly distilled architectural atlas based on 144 major designs from ancient times to the 21st century, showcasing the cultural dimension of building .

Newly drawn axonometric projections, sections and floor plans allow for optimal comparison

302 b/w illustrations

By: Andread Lechner
Imprint: Park Books
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Dimensions: Height: 310mm, Width: 230mm,
Weight: 1.952kg
ISBN: 9783038602460
ISBN 10: 3038602469
Pages: 492
Publication Date: 01 February 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Andreas Lechner runs his own architcture and research practice in Graz, Austria, and teaches as an associate professor at Graz University of Technology's Faculty of Architecture.