Simon Unwin – Exercises in Architecture – Learning to Think as an Architect – Paperback

This revised edition of Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect is full of new content, building on the success of the previous edition.All the original exercises have been revised and new ones added, with the format changing to allow the inclusion of more supplementary material.The aim remains the same, to help pre- or early-course architecture students begin and develop their ability to think as architects. Learning to do architecture is tricky. It involves awakening abilities that remain dormant in most people.It is like learning language for the first time; a task made more mystifying by the fact that architecture deals not in words but in places: places to stand, to walk, to sit, to hide, to sleep, to cook, to eat, to work, to play, to worship…This book was written for those who want to be architects.It suggests a basis for early experiences in a school of architecture; but it could also be used in secondary schools and colleges, or as self-directed preparatio