Author : Edward R. Ford
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781568989631
Five Houses, Ten Details by Edward R. Ford Pdf
Edward Ford's forty years of practicing and teaching architecture have focused on one area: the architectural detail. Yet, despite two hugely influential books (The Details of Modern Architecture, volumes 1 and 2), numerous articles, and lectures given from Vancouver to Vienna, there are two questions Ford has, remarkably, never answered: "What is a detail?" and more importantly, "What is a good detail?" Ford is an architect as well as a writer, so it is not surprising that rather than answering these questions in a third book, he spent six years on the design and construction of a house. Building it was not an exercise in the application of ideas about detail; it was, rather, a mechanism for answering those two simple questions.