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• Architecture Design Primer | Desmystifying Architectural Design

  The entries currently fall into one of three categories: Experience & Use, Formal Ideas, Process & Design Thinking. My 'Housing Ideas' blog hosts a series of lesser-known projects that demonstrate may...

• Introduction | Architecture Design Primer

  This site is intended as a resource for students of architecture. I believe that the problems of teaching architectural design are distinct from science-based and other art-based disciplines. Over the...

• About | Architecture Design Primer

  The author trained as an architect in New York during the 1980s. He has studied architecture formally for 18 years in the US, Netherlands, and the UK, and worked in architecture practices in the US an...

• Free Plan, Open Plan, Raumplan | Architecture Design Primer

  In everyday usage ‘free plan’ and ‘open plan’ are often used interchangeably. They are, however, very distinct. A free plan comes into play when the role of structure is separated from that of enclosu...

• plan | Architecture Design Primer

  Posts about plan written by thesleepofrigour

• Spatial Routines | Architecture Design Primer

  In my studio teaching I often talk about routines rather than programme, function or use (see Programme, Function, Use, Activity). Routines help the designer focus on the activities that take place in...