This book by author Simon Unwin is a must for every student of architecture as well as anyone with a genuine interest in design of the built environment.
In short, Analysing Architecture offers a great framework for looking at what makes architecture architecture. Using original sketches the author discusses main elements of architecture, and the processes and factors by which these elements have been dealth with in creating it. The concept of place-making is given a focal point.
The book is simple and easy to follow yet ideas presented in it have far reaching potential. In this way, it will be very helpful to first and second year students, and also be of great assistance to those latter-year students who get stuck with their over-complicated design tasks. I found it to be one of only a handfull of useful references (whose topics is chiefly architectural design) throughout my studies.
Of course you can always go ahead and spent $300 on Phaidon's Atlas of World Architecture or any book inudnated with flashy works and obscure theories by latest "In" architects from the Netherlands...
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