1.SECC Conference Centre,Glasgow,Scotland Foster Partners,1995-1997 This building has a strong profile on its site along the River Clyde in Glasgow.The centre has a curved aluminium roof,which looks much like the hard shell of an armadillo,suggesting a strong,formal metaphor for the building's form and shape. At its simplest form,architecture can be about designing spaces or rooms,or,at its most complex, designing buildings,streets and cities.The techniques involved in thinking about designing a chair or a room,at one end of the scale,or a city at the other,are varied and complex.Sometimes,they can be two dimensional and measured,for example,using drawings to a particular scale.At other times,the technique employed needs to be freehand and intuitive,allowing a more blue sky'kind of thinking. Whatever technique is deemed best for a particular stage of a specific project,all are essential to allow the incremental development of the design idea of the architecture. 9 1p9 QC Preflight Point 2nd 11 11 Job no : 76451 Title : The Fundamentals of Architecture Client : AVA Scn : #175 Size : 200(w)230(h)mm Co : M11 C0 (All To Spot)(Coagl)__LC Dept : DTP D/O : 07.05.07 (Job no: 76451C1 D/O : 25.05.07 Co: CM3) 76451_CTP_001-051.qxd 5/23/07 4:33 AM Page 9 p9 2nd 9Introduction At its simplest form, architecture can be about designing spaces or rooms, or, at its most complex, designing buildings, streets and cities. The techniques involved in thinking about designing a chair or a room, at one end of the scale, or a city at the other, are varied and complex. Sometimes, they can be two dimensional and measured, for example, using drawings to a particular scale. At other times, the technique employed needs to be freehand and intuitive, allowing a more ‘blue sky’ kind of thinking. Whatever technique is deemed best for a particular stage of a specific project, all are essential to allow the incremental development of the design idea of the architecture. 1 1. SECC Conference Centre, Glasgow, Scotland Foster + Partners, 1995–1997 This building has a strong profile on its site along the River Clyde in Glasgow. The centre has a curved aluminium roof, which looks much like the hard shell of an armadillo, suggesting a strong, formal metaphor for the building’s form and shape. 76451_CTP_001-051.qxd 5/23/07 4:33 AM Page 9