{"id":2163,"date":"2014-07-23T08:47:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T22:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/the-elements-of-modern-architecture-understanding-contemporary-buildings\/"},"modified":"2014-07-23T08:47:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T22:47:12","slug":"the-elements-of-modern-architecture-understanding-contemporary-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/the-elements-of-modern-architecture-understanding-contemporary-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elements of Modern Architecture: Understanding Contemporary Buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fifty of the world’s greatest modern buildings, from 1950 to the present, dissected and analyzed through specially commissioned freehand drawings<\/p>\n

After a period in which computation-derived architecture\u2014driven by digital design tools, data analysis, and new formal expression\u2014has thrived, students and their teachers have returned to age-old techniques before employing the digital tools that are a part of every architect\u2019s studio. Tired of the perfectly rendered screen image, architects are making presentations that are clearly the work of the hand and the mind, not the computer. <\/p>\n

This ambitious publication, organized chronologically, is aimed at a new generation of architects who take technology for granted, but seek to further understand the principles of what makes a building meaningful and enduring. Each of the fifty works of architecture is presented through detailed consideration of its site, topology, and surroundings; natural light, volumes, and massing; program and circulation; details, fenestration, and ornamentation. Over 2,500 painstakingly hand-drawn images of the buildings of the past seven decades help readers return to the core values of understanding site and creating buildings: looking with the eyes, engaging through direct physical experience, and constructing by hand.<\/p>\n

50+ photographs in black and white and 2,500 line drawings<\/p>\n

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Fifty of the world’s greatest modern buildings, from 1950 to the present, dissected and analyzed through specially commissioned freehand drawings After a period in which computation-derived architecture\u2014driven by digital design tools, data analysis, and new formal expression\u2014has thrived, students and their teachers have returned to age-old techniques before employing the digital tools that are a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[48,91,433,2555,119,983],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","tag-architecture-2","tag-buildings","tag-contemporary","tag-elements","tag-modern","tag-understanding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}