Architectural Composition And Building Typology Interpreting Basic Building Gianfranco Caniggia by Gianfranco Caniggia, Gian Luigi Maffei 9788881254262, 8881254263 instant download after payment.

This volume codifies the method to read building structures that have
appeared in the past as ‘spontaneous consciousness’ level in a
progression of scalar sizes ranging from buildings and clusters of
buildings to urban organisms and the territory. Focusing on past
architecture is the field of ‘process classification’ that is the key to
using history in working as architects in the modern world. We wish to
extract the laws of behaviour, formation and mutation of manmade
structuring on the various scales of man’s work as we consider this
knowledge to be the only possible solution to the architectural crisis
that has dragged on for over two centuries. It results in planning based
on reviving the tradition of ‘producing’ buildings not as a dogmatic
adaptation to past building methods but intended to contemporaneously
fit our work into the continuity of laws and behaviour codified in our
cultural area; these laws can only be understood and consequently by
carefully reading the built environment that surrounds us.