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Rice's Architectural Primer Book

A quick comprehensive education; an architectural enthusiast with a passion for illustration explains how to describe buildings. Rice is a Jack of all trades designer, who has a massive enthusiasm for buildings. However how many of us understand the terms to describe buildings features. Rice has produced a glossary for people ignorant of architecture. The book does exactly what is says on the tin. With the most exquisitely animated drawings, Rice brings to life the distinctive features of some beautiful buildings and catalogues the individual features in a simplified, yet detailed style, carefully ensuring the correct terminology is applied. Rice informs of how architecture has been a way of expressing political thought and uses examples to explain this idea. Despite the obvious economy of photographing buildings to explain features, Rice prefers the use of illustrations because of his concern that with the camera being unable to lie, often buildings are now littered with notices which can distract the eye from this significant details. Although not opposed to progress and modernisation, Rice believes that often in the process of restoration or putting buildings right we have a habit of ruining them. This thought provoking book should help the reader to think more carefully about the buildings they inhabit daily and why they look and feel as they do. Read More

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  • Ross Kerr20 October 2010

    This book is an excellent all round illustrative guide for anyone interested in architecture and urban form (particularly students).
    It offers a totally comprehensive guide to all architectural elements - all of which are illustrated. Allowing you to determine the difference between a doric column, ionic orders, architraves etc. etc.
    For anyone who requires a quick and easy to navigate visual dictionary, relative to architectural design. I can't recommend this book enough. Every Architecture student should get this book on week one. They will quickly absorb a very broad understanding of their subject, from which they will easily develop a platform to learn further with the information held within this book being retained as part of their design understanding. This book is called a primer for a reason! It should be treated as critically as many other architecture and design tomes. Books of this nature should take precedence over more weighty architecture reads (for the new architecture student at least).
    Again, I can't recommend this book enough.

  • Amazon

    A beautifully packaged, idiosyncratic introduction to British building styles, by the acclaimed illustrator and architectural enthusiast Matthew Rice.

  • TheBookPeople

    ICE'S ARCHITECTURAL PRIMER starts with an explanation of the basic 'Grammar' of buildings: elevation, plan, roof, gable and eave. This will enable the reader to better make use of what is to follow. It will also cover the Orders of Architecture - Doric, Tuscan, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite - so that the vital basics of Classicism are covered. Following this is the 'Vocabulary'. This will be a chronological reference section covering, period by period, the windows, doors and doorcases, columns, chimneys, arches, balustrades and pediments that make up the built environment.

  • ASDA

    A beautifully packaged idiosyncratic introduction to British building styles by the acclaimed illustrator and architectural enthusiast Matthew Rice.

  • 0747597480
  • 9780747597483
  • Matthew Rice
  • 6 July 2009
  • Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 240
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