Archives For November 30, 1999

An area plan is a plan showing the principal elements of a design project in the wider context of its surrounding environment.

area plan

The Beauregard area plan

Definition of area plan

Simply put, morphology is the form and structure of anything.

Morphology is an “account of form,” an account that allows us a rational grasp of the morphe by making internal and external relations intelligible. It seeks to be a general theory of the formative powers of organic structure. The Pre-Darwinian project of rational morphology was to discover the “laws of form,” some inherent necessity in the laws which governed morphological process. It sought to construct what was typical in the varieties of form into a system which should not be merely historically determined, but which should be intelligible from a higher and more rational standpoint. (Hans Driesch, 1914, p. 149)

Borrowing from the disciplines of biology and philosophy, where it refers respectively with the study of form and structure of organisms and the science of the form of words, the term morphology is used in architectural discourse to describe the study of the changing structure of an architectural form and its formation in response to different conditions, such as time or function, or to the relationship of a form to existing typologies.

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the edge of something is the place or line where it stops, or the part of it that is furthest from the middle…

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