Interpreting Site

<p><em>Interpreting Site</em> explains the basic methods architects use to translate what you perceive to represent the complex conditions that physically and mentally construe a site helping to shape the ultimate design. Within each of the four themes---defining site experiencing site spatializing site and systematizing site--- theoretical conceptual and analytic methods and representational tools are introduced to give you a foundation to develop your own approach to the conditions of a site. Author Genevieve S. Baudoin examines longstanding representation methods in relation to emerging and experimental methods offering an idiosyncratic and provocative look at different approaches.</p><p>Four highly illustrated full colour case studies of key contemporary projects in Spain the United States the United Kingdom and Norway demonstrate how architects have used conditions discovered on a site in their final design.</p>