Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Primary Elements
- Point
- Line
- Line to Plane
- Plane
- Volume
Form
- Visual Proportions of Form
- Shape
- Primary Shapes
- Platonic Solids
- Regular & Irregular Forms
- Transformation of Form
- Dimensional Transformation
- Subtractive Forms
- Additive Forms
- Centralzied
- Linear
- Radial
- Clustered
- Grid
- Formal Collisions of Geometry
- Articulation of Form
- Edges & Corners
- Surfaces
Form & Space
- Form & Space: The Unity of Opposites
- Form Defining Space
- Defining Space with Horizontal Elements
- The Base Plane
- Elevated Planes
- Depressed Planes
- The Overhead Plane
- Defining Space with Vertical Elements
- Vertical Linear Elements
- Single Vertical Plane
- L-Shaped Planes
- Parallel Planes
- U-Shaped Planes
- Closure
- Qualities of Architectural Space
- Degree of Closure
- Light
- View
- Openings in Space Defining Elements
- Within Planes
- At Corners
- Between Planes
Organizations
- Organizations of Form & Space
- Spatial Relationships
- Space Within a Space
- Interlocking Spaces
- Adjacent Spaces
- Spaces Linked by a Common Space
- Spatial Organizations
- Centralized Organizations
- Linear Organizations
- Radial Organizations
- Clustered Organizations
- Grid Organizations
Circulation
- Circulation Elements
- The Building Approach
- Building Entrances
- Configuration of the Path
- Path Space Relationships
- Form of the Circulation Space
Proportion & Scale
- Proportion
- Proportioning Systems
- Golden Section
- The Orders
- Renaissance Theories
- The Modulor
- The ‘Ken’
- Anthropomorphic Proportioning
- Scale
Principles
- Ordering Principles
- Axis
- Symmetry
- Hierarchy
- Datum
- Rhythm & Repetition
- Transformation
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Glossary by Term
- 2 points
- additive forms
- additive transformations
- adjacent spaces
- anthropomorphic proportioning systems
- anthropomorphic proportions
- articulation of form
- articulation of forms
- axis
- base plane
- building entrances
- ceiling plane
- ceilings
- centrality
- centralized forms
- centralized organizations
- centralized spatial organizations
- circular form
- circulation
- circulation space
- classical Orders
- Closure
- clustered forms
- clustered organizations
- clustered spatial organizations
- collisions of geometry
- colonnades
- color
- columns in space
- composite configuration
- corners
- cube
- cylinder
- datum
- degree of enclosure
- depressed plane
- dimensional transformations
- doors
- edges
- edge-to-edge contact
- elevated plane
- enclosed circulation space
- entrances
- exterior wall plane
- facade
- face-to-face contact
- Fibonacci Series
- floor plane
- floors
- flush entrances
- form
- formal transformation
- forms and space
- frontal building approach
- golden section
- grid configuration
- grid forms
- grid organizations
- grid spatial organizations
- hierarchy
- horizontal elements
- intercolumniation
- interior wall planes
- interlocking forms
- interlocking spaces
- interlocking volumes
- irregular forms
- Ken
- light
- line
- linear configuration
- linear elements
- linear forms
- linear organizations
- linear spatial organizations
- L-shaped planes
- manufactured proportions
- material proportions
- Modulor
- motion
- movement
- network configuration
- oblique building approach
- open on both sides circulation space
- open on one side circulation space
- openings
- openings at corners
- openings between planes
- openings within planes
- ordering principles
- organizations
- orientation
- overhead plane
- parallel planes
- path configurations
- paths
- path-space relationships
- planar elements
- plane
- platonic solids
- point
- position
- primary elements of form
- projected entrances
- proportion
- proportioning systems
- pyramid
- qualities of architectural space
- radial configuration
- radial forms
- radial organizations
- radial spatial organizations
- recessed entrances
- regular forms
- regulating lines
- Renaissance theories
- Renaissance theories of proportion
- repetition
- reverberation
- rhythm
- roof
- roof plane
- scale
- shape
- size
- space within a space
- spaces linked by a common space
- spatial organizations
- spatial relationships
- spatial tension
- sphere
- spiral building approach
- spiral configuration
- square
- stairs
- structural proportion
- subtractive forms
- subtractive transformations
- surface articulation
- symmetry
- texture
- The ‘Ken’
- the building approach
- The Golden Section
- the Modulor
- The Orders
- transformation
- transformation as an ordering principle
- transformation of form
- triangle
- U-shaped planes
- vertical elements
- vertical planes
- view
- visual inertia
- visual properties of form are shape, size, color, texture, position, orientation, and visual intertia. All of these visual properties of form are in reality affected by the conditions under which we view them: our perspective or angle of view, our distance from the form, lighting conditions, and the visual field surrounding the form.
- volume
- wall plane
- walls
- windows
Source Citation
Ching, Francis D.K. Architecture: Form, Space & Order. New York, New York: Van Nostrand Keinhold, 1979.
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