TY  - GEN
AU  - Kalfazade, Nihat 
TI  - Diagrammatic potency of the Nine square grid in architecture: concepts, selected examples and discussions
SN  - 9783639136593
U1  - 720.1 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Saarbrucken
PB  - VDM Verlag
N1  - CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS	i
TABLE OF CONTENTS	ii
LIST OF FIGURES	iv
CHAPTER 1 • INTRODUCTION	1
1.1 Problem Definition	1
1.2 Process	1
1.3 Structure of the Book	5
1.4 Perceptual Potency of the 9SG	6
1.5 Definition of the Diagram	9
1.5.1 Diagram as an Operative Tool	11
1.5.2 Diagram as a Generative Tool	12
1.5.3 Diagrammatic Potency of the 9SG	13
CHAPTER 2-   SELECTED 9SG PROJECTS IN ARCHITECTURE	15
2.1 The Nine Square Grid Exercise and
The Texas Houses (Austin, 1954-63): John Hejduk	16
2.1.1 The 9SG Exercise	17
2.1.2 The Texas Houses as a "Form of Auto-Criticism"	19
2.1.3 The Texas Houses	21
2.2 House Projects (1967 -  75): Peter Eisenman	27
2.2.1 House II (Vermont, 1969)	29
2.2.2 House Ill (Connecticut, 1970)	30
2.2.3 House IV (Connecticut, 1971)	31
2.3 The Villas (Italy, Mid 15th Century): Andrea Palladio	32
2.3.1 Palladio's Requisite for Beauty	32
2.3.2 Evolution of the Palladian Villa Plan	33
2.4 City Plan of Chandigarh and
Governor's Palace (Chandigarh, 1950 - 1965): Le Corbusier	36
2.4.1 The "Nine Square Mandala" (9SM)	37
2.4.2 The City Plan of Jaipur	39
2.4.3 Plan of the Hindu Temple and the 9SM	42
2.4.4 City Plan of Chandigarh	45
2.4.5 The Governor's Palace	47
2.5 Jawahar Kala Kendra (Jaipur, 1992): Charles Correa	49
2.6 Follies, Pare De La Villette (Paris, 1983): Bernard Tschumi	52
2.6.1 Lines and Surfaces	54
2.6.2 The Grid	54
2.6.3 The Follies	56
2.7 Proposal for the Bibliotheque Nationale (Paris, 1989): Rem Koolhaas, OMA  59
2.8 The 9SG House (Kanagawa, 1997) and
The Ivy Structure (Tokyo, 2000): Shigeru Ban	62
2.8.1 The 9SG House (Kanagawa, 1997)	64
2.8.2 The Ivy Structure (Tokyo, 2000)	65
CHAPTER 3-   DISCUSSION ON THE DIAGRAMMATIC  POTENCY OF THE 9SG	67
3.1 9SG as a Tool of Representation	68
3.1.1 9SG as Geometry and Structure	69
3.1.2 9SG as "Type"	72
3.2 9SG as an Operative Tool.	72
3.2.1 9SG for Ordering Program	72
3.2.2 9SG for Ordering Structure	74
3.2.3 9SG for Ordering Context.	74
3.3 9SG as a Generative Tool.	75
CHAPTER 4 - CONCLUSION	78
4.1 Figure-Ground Relations in the 9SG	79
4.2 9SG as a Field	82
REFERENCES	88
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY	90



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