Simple Building

Simple Building, by Sidney Magee, offers a new paradigm for understanding form, function, and the environment of building design. Part challenge to the superficiality of post modernism, and part response to the absence of any articulated design method in today's architectural curricula, Simple Building gives students, architects, designers, and everyone who just loves architecture a natural and organic approach to understanding the meaning form and the function of design. Magee's Simple Building begins with three simple ideas that build into an elegant vision of architecture's future: form does not follow function, it allows it; a building should look like a building; the point of architecture is what's inside it. These are straightforward ideas, but profound in their simplicity and truth. Told with students in mind, written for everyone who appreciates architecture, Simple Building teaches a new way to understand the beauty and elegance of building design.