The Architecture of the Compact Form

This book, together with The Architecture of the Courtyard (2005) and The Architecture Composed of Parts (2009), forms a trilogy in which the three great systems of making architecture are analyzed. The book makes a historical journey of este system, but it does not aspire so much to relate the history of the system as to reveal the main m methods and principles of the project that have animated its m significant examples.

181 pp.: photo, b/w., plans and sections, 24 x 17 cm., paperback