Determined to be noticed, they invert traditional monumen-tal forms such as obelisks and stelae or tease with an act of disappearance

The entire house is built as a fragment of a colossal column, implying the imaginary presence of a gigantic temple that has since collapsed in ruin

One of the most exhilarating and iconic airport designs ever produced, its layered metaphors conjure an elegant raptor just before flight, and a weightless sense of soaring.

“The slab is perhaps the most ubiquitous and yet under-appreciated of all structural elements.

While walls and columns are generally being compressed, beams are most frequently in a state of bending.

Eventually, columns began to become more objectlike, and arches

sectional study mode

extension of the ground on which it is constructed

a work can either emphasize or deemphasize their significance through what it chooses to call attention to.

Natural and artificial topographies

with mirrors and windows placed in unexpected places and nearly invisible to adults.

The architect must be able to empathize with those potential users of a work, to try to see through the eyes of others

Some codes even determine the color, style, and exterior materials that are permitted when building in a specific location

Here, the architect is no longer the maker, per se, but the choreographer of processes that result in architectural form.

Hadid’s famous paintings study the effects that luminosity, kinetic motion, the integration of contextual networks and forces, and parallax vision can all have on the design’s developmen

While some contemporary computer graphic programs attempt to duplicate the flexibility of tracing paper,

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Ultimately, the collection of conceptual sketches throughout the design process forms the diary of a project,

The original concept sketch

In order to have a productive value, an architectural concept should eventually result in an observation that can be shared with a larger audience. And, while intrinsically an abstraction, a concept also differs from an idea in that it has an obligation to suggest an image or a thing, since it must inevitably lead to a constructive proposition.

architect. Therefore, whenever one analyzes a work, one is essentially coauthoring that work.

Analysis is the process of exploration and discovery with which an architect not only develops a familiarity with the assumptions, expecta-tions, and conditions that are given, but subsequently establishes the critical framework of the problem, the conceptual lens through which all design decisions are subsequently made

Analysis is the process of exploration and discovery with which an architect not only develops a familiarity with the assumptions, expecta-tions, and conditions that are given, but subsequently establishes the critical framework of the problem, the conceptual lens through which all design decisions are subsequently made