Author Description

An Animated Introduction is an excellent reference for the student, architect, and lay reader alike. As a dual-format publication-CD-ROM and book-it brings the process of design into a much more accessible and exciting format. The CD-ROM offers a thorough grounding on all issues relating to the art, science, and practice of architecture and allied design fields. It further extends this material into an interactive format, linking narrative to color slides sets, analytical drawings, and animation. The book is written at a level that presupposes no previous knowledge of the subject and fully explains concepts, historical styles, structures, and other topics through conceptual drawing and photographs. By combining traditional two dimensional information about architecture with live and hand drawn animation tailored to the topics introduced, knowledge learned through the linear presentation of topics in the book can now be field-tested and researched as the user needs it. An Animated Introduction is a combined script that can be used for educational purposes as teaching tool that is easily comprehensible for people of all ages interested in architecture.