Books
These classics by Edward T. White are as relevant today as ever, and newly republished, mostly in a convenient 9" x 7" landscape paperback format. More titles are being prepared.
These books describe the process and techniques of visualizing architectural predesign and design information in the dual sense of converting that information into graphic images and of seeing or understanding the information better. The central thesis is that our ability to draw needs, requirements, and early design concepts is just as important as our ability to draw final building design solutions and that, in fact, our diagramming skills profoundly influence the quality of our building designs.
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| Building Meaning
Edward T. White
This book explores and explains building image analysis. Like "Site Analysis" and "Space Adjacency Analysis", it provides a way to pay special attention to a particular type of design issue - in this case the issue of building image or environmental message. This can help a designer responsibly handle large amounts of design information in a systematic way, allow designers and clients to communicate better about the nature of the design problem to be solved and the reasons for design decisions, and make design processes more effective and efficient. © 1996. Paper, 9" x 7", 344 pages. $32.95
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Site Analysis
Edward T. White
Contextual analysis is a predesign research activity which focuses on the existing, imminent, and potential conditions on and around a project site. It is, in a sense, an inventory of all the pressures, forces, and situations and their interactions at the property where a project will be built. © 2004. Paper, 9" x 7", 164 pages. $29.95.
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Space Adjacency Analysis
Edward T. White
One of our major responsibilities as architects is to design buildings that support the activities of the users of the facilities. Our building designs should positively reinforce and facilitate the performance of the operations that they house. A facility should go beyond simply containing activities and should actually contribute to the productivity of our client's organization. © 1986. Paper, 9" x 7", 204 pages. $29.95
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| Concept Sourcebook
Edward T. White
Architecture students seem to graduate with a relatively small vocabulary of architectural forms for responding to project needs. This is not because the forms are unavailable but because students have had little experience and because current methods for acquiring them are very inefficient. As a result, some professional designers handle different projects with similar building forms that have become comfortable and familiar. This book presents a theory of concepts and concept formation based on a vocabulary for five categories of design: Functional Grouping and Zoning, Architectural Space, Circulation and the Building Form, Response to Context, and Building Envelope. As a whole, they are meant as a catalyst for project concept formation. © 1975. Paper, 9" x 7", 200 pages. $24.95
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Ordering Systems
Edward T. White
The introductory design experience has always been an especially important one for the student. It offers an initial way of understanding design and so largely forms the context for making sense of subsequent design experiences. This book works with students where they are rather than demanding some fundamental change of values before beginning the study of design. And it introduces design not as some mystique which only the blessed possess but as a system of operations that anyone can and, in fact, does use daily. Profusely illustrated and hand-lettered in Prof. White's signature style, this little volume provides an indispensable introduction to a very complex discipline. © 2003. Paper, 9" x 7", 104 pages. $22.95
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Path • Portal • Place
Edward T. White
Inspired by a year living and teaching architecture in Florence, Italy, this book addresses the goal of keener environmental knowing, pointing out a way to see urban settings in more penetrating ways to evolve a personal urban alertness that moves us to finer levels of making sense of spaces. Emphasis is on the areas between buildings where urban life happens. The book has three sections, on urban environments, public space, and learning to appreciate, and is profusely illustrated with the author's signature hand sketches. © 1999. Paper, 9" x 7", 126 pages. $19.95
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| Presentation Strategies for Architects
Edward T. White
People in any discipline depend on being able to make effective presentations, which are more dependent on pre-presentation thinking than on traditional presentation activities (writing text, preparing graphics, etc.). Don't fail to get a key commission because the key concerns of the selection committee weren't understood. This profusely illustrated book explores the essential characteristics of strategic planning for presentations, a crucial consideration regardless of whether the audience is a teacher, a government review board, a community organization, or a private client. © 1976. Paper, 8.5" x 8.5", 116 pages. $19.95.
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| Travel Drawing: Engaging the Spirit of Place
Edward T. White
This book is about the rituals of travel drawing. About how visual journaling processes can help engage and explore place spirit at locales where we sketch. About how ways we draw may deepend our intimacy with and reverence for place. When enacted mindfully, drawing is an opportuity to fuly feel the joy and satisfaction of crafting well and of commiting fond, vivid memories, in detail, to memory, something no camera work can do as well. © 2004. Paper, 8.5" x 8.5", 252 pages. $44.95.
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| The Piazzas of Florence
Edward T. White
Nine piazzas are selected here for analysis, chosen from Florence's many wonderful urban spaces. They are chosen for their variety of configurations, contained activities, and moods, for their instructive value and explanatory power, for their mix of successes and shortcomings, because they are some of the town's largest, most important, most intensely used exterior public places. The piazzas are not treated historically but described as they are today, as contemporary, living, architectural configurations, as public spaces in a present-day urban environment that may offer us design wisdom applicable to today's project challenges. It is a terrific, superbly illustrated, comprehensive study of what makes urban spaces so important to community life. © 2006. Paper, 7" x 9" landscape format, 294 pages. $46.95
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