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Diagramming the big idea : methods for architectural composition / Jeffrey Balmer & Michael T. Swisher.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025Copyright date: ©2026Edition: Third edition, revised and EnlargedDescription: pages cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781032937632
  • 9781032937601
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • NA2750 .B3225 2025
Summary: "Becoming an architect is a daunting task. Beyond the acquisition of new skills and procedures, beginning designers face an entirely unfamiliar mode of knowledge: design thinking. In Diagramming the Big Idea, Jeffrey Balmer and Michael T. Swisher introduce the fundamentals of design thinking by illustrating how architects make and use diagrams to clarify their understanding of both specific architectural projects and universal principles of form and order. With accessible, step-by-step procedures that interweave diagrams, drawings and virtual models, the authors demonstrate how to compose clear and revealing diagrams. Design diagrams make visible the abstractions that order the built environment. Premised upon the notion of the architectural parti, Balmer and Swisher adopt the 'Big Idea' as a foil and as a package to organize fundamentals of architectural composition. The goal of this book is to make explicit to students what they are learning, why they are learning it and how to internalize such lessons toward their lifelong development as designers. This re-colored third edition, revised and expanded, features over 1,400 diagrams and illustrations to present fundamental concepts of form and order in a comprehensive format"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Becoming an architect is a daunting task. Beyond the acquisition of new skills and procedures, beginning designers face an entirely unfamiliar mode of knowledge: design thinking. In Diagramming the Big Idea, Jeffrey Balmer and Michael T. Swisher introduce the fundamentals of design thinking by illustrating how architects make and use diagrams to clarify their understanding of both specific architectural projects and universal principles of form and order. With accessible, step-by-step procedures that interweave diagrams, drawings and virtual models, the authors demonstrate how to compose clear and revealing diagrams. Design diagrams make visible the abstractions that order the built environment. Premised upon the notion of the architectural parti, Balmer and Swisher adopt the 'Big Idea' as a foil and as a package to organize fundamentals of architectural composition. The goal of this book is to make explicit to students what they are learning, why they are learning it and how to internalize such lessons toward their lifelong development as designers. This re-colored third edition, revised and expanded, features over 1,400 diagrams and illustrations to present fundamental concepts of form and order in a comprehensive format"-- Provided by publisher.