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Economy of means is an aesthetic category as well as a design tool. It makes it possible to imagine and evaluate results. It is at the core of any relevant design, whatever the medium. In its usual meaning, it signifies using as few means as possible to reach a specific goal. Beyond this, one can link it to any attitude based on a critical approach to the means used to create something. Economy of means has as much to do with the process as it does with the results. It is an investigation of form in all its dimensions. Form is the horizon of any human activity pushed to a high level of accomplishment. Economy of means is the DNA of good forms. Architecture is defining the good form for a building. Using few and carefully surveyed means enables architects to give meaning and intelligibility to their buildings.This exhibition, part of the Lisbon Triennale under the theme The Poetics of Reason, seeks to contribute to the definition of the specificity of architectural rationality, as do the four other that make up the event. Each of its first four sections shows a specific regime of economy of means. Economy of repetition leads to typology and interest in ordinary architecture and the city. Economy of void leads to the invention of space. Economy of measurements leads to surreal poetics and mass housing. Economy of material leads to the fantasised possibility of building the whole Earth. Economy of procedures expands the limits of architecture. Economy of means is the condition of possibility for architecture to be able to speak its own language under any superimposed vocabulary. Measure, rhythm, repetition, type, exception, system, order, geometry, analogy are some of its main words; economy of means is the grammar; poetics of reason is the result.

Architecture and rationality. --- Architecture --- Trienal de arquitectura de Lisboa --- 72.078 --- 72.012/013 --- Architectuurtentoonstellingen --- Vorm (architectuur)

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This book provides a critical examination of structure and form in design, covering a range of topics of great value to students and practitioners engaged in any of the specialist decorative arts and design disciplines. The complexities of two-dimensional phenomena are explained and illustrated in detail, while various three-dimensional forms are also discussed. In the context of the decorative arts and design, structure is the underlying framework, and form the resultant, visible, two- or three-dimensional outcome of the creative process. Whether hidden or visually detectable in the final design, structure invariably determines whether or not a design is successful in terms of both its aesthetics and its practical performance. Hann successfully identifies various geometric concepts, and presents and discusses a number of simple guidelines to assist the creative endeavours of both accomplished and student practitioners, teachers and researchers.

Design --- Methodology. --- Philosophy. --- Méthodologie --- Philosophie --- 514 --- 72.012/013 --- 72.04 --- Patronen (architectuur) --- Tegels --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Methodology --- Philosophy --- Geometrie --- Symmetrie (architectuur) --- Vorm (architectuur) --- Ornamenten (architectuur)

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Morphologie architecturale --- Théorie de la forme --- Analyse architecturale --- Architectuur ; ontwerpanalyse ; vormanalyse --- 72.013 --- 72.01 --- 72.012/013 --- Architectuur ; proportie, symmetrie, harmonie --- Architectuur (theorie) --- Architectuurtheorie --- Ontwerp (architectuur) --- Vorm (architectuur) --- Proportie (architectuur) --- Compositie (architectuur) --- Psychologie de la forme

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labyrinths [motifs] --- Painting --- iconography --- Environmental planning --- iconografie --- Architecture --- Iconography --- History of civilization --- gardens [open spaces] --- tuinen --- Labyrinten --- Doolhoven --- 72.03 --- 72.012/013 --- 7.013 --- 712 --- Architectuur (geschiedenis) --- Architectuurgeschiedenis --- Vorm (architectuur) --- Vorm (kunst) --- Landschapsarchitectuur --- Tuinarchitectuur --- Gardens --- Pictorial works --- Styles --- History --- Maze gardens --- 712.3 --- 712.3 Tuinarchitectuur. Tuinaanleg --- Tuinarchitectuur. Tuinaanleg

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Architectural design. --- Structural dynamics. --- Design architectural --- Constructions --- Dynamique --- 72.012/013 --- 69 --- 69.01 --- architectuur --- architectuurtheorie --- structuur --- statica --- geometrie --- ontwerp --- vorm --- Vorm (architectuur) --- Bouwtechniek --- Bouwconstructie --- Architectural design --- Structural dynamics --- Building dynamics --- Dynamics, Structural --- Structural vibration --- Strains and stresses --- Structural analysis (Engineering) --- Design --- Structural design