Operative Design: A Catalog of Spatial Verbs

Small in size, big in style. Great little book for design reference.

So, full disclosure I have had an MFA in painting and sculpture and used to teach art history...now I am getting an associates in design that includes a LOT of CAD and 3-D software classwork. I find these two books to be totally fascinating because of the systematic way they approach building vocabularies and design patterns for the parts of speech. I could easily see building these out as a library of essential design masses.....shoot, I may just do that and see what I can make them do.

For design faculty, this is the kind of book that clearly demonstrates to foundation and core studio students the kind of conceptual manipulation they should engage in at the earliest stages of the design process. Students I have introduced the book to have, on the whole, responded well with clearer, more legible, diagrams of their formal site and building intentions. As a consequence, students were more adept at recognizing and illustrating their abstract spatial intentions, demonstrating increased critical thinking skills. Affordable and compact in size, the book should be a required text for foundation and core design studios.

A great little manual on basic formal operations in architecture. This book will be sure to expand any early architecture students, and anyone looking to improve there vocabulary in architectural composition

Really nice book, well printed, and new. Pocket size perfect to take everywear. In content i love it because it helps me understand forms and it's posible variation better. I study architecture, so it's been a helpfull book.

Recommend by our professor, it is useful! Want to buy the rest of the series.

This book is so relevant for architecture students and architects alike. As well as other designers. Why do we do what we do and how do we get across the "big idea"

Thus is a very cool book about all the ways you can transform something. Very unusual, thought provoking if you have the right kind of mind.