Download or read book Painting as a Means of Exploring Architectural Design and Issues written by Jessica Leah Rothschild and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introduction to Art Design Context and Meaning written by Pamela Sachant and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning offers a deep insight and comprehension of the world of Art. Contents: What is Art? The Structure of Art Significance of Materials Used in Art Describing Art - Formal Analysis, Types, and Styles of Art Meaning in Art - Socio-Cultural Contexts, Symbolism, and Iconography Connecting Art to Our Lives Form in Architecture Art and Identity Art and Power Art and Ritual Life - Symbolism of Space and Ritual Objects, Mortality, and Immortality Art and Ethics
Download or read book Drawn to Design written by Eric Jenkins and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a guide for students and teachers to understand the need for, the role of and the methods and techniques of freehand analytical sketching in architecture. The presentation focuses on drawing as an approach to and phase of architectural design. The conceptual goal of this approach is to use drawing not as illustration or depiction, but as exploration. The first part of the book discusses underlying concepts of freehand sketching in design education and practice as a complement to digital technologies. The main component is a series of chapters that constitute a typology of fundamental issues in architecture and urban design; for instance, issues of "façade" are illustrated with sketch diagrams that show how façades can be explored and sketched through a series of specific questions and step-by-step procedures. In the expanded and updated edition, a new part explores the questions and experiences of large architectural offices in applying freehand drawing in the practice of architectural design. This book is especially timely in an age in which the false conflict between "traditional vs. digital" gives way to multiple design tools, including sketching. It fosters understanding of the essential human ability to investigate the designed and the natural world through freehand drawing.
Download or read book Drawing for Architects written by Julia McMorrough and published by Rockport Publishers. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immediate and constructive, the physicality of hand drawing, upon which representation formats are based, is a necessary skill needed to communicate ideas in the field of architectural design. Drawing for Architects provides what practicing architects and architectural students need - a technique-based, progression of drawing types and instructions teaching core drawing principles needed to connect drawing with architectural design. Respected architect and author Julia McMorrough outlines issues around each of the types of drawing, showing that the conversations of plan, section, elevation, axonometric, and perspective each have a relation to the kind of design information that drawing makes possible to express. Drawing for Architects explains both the technical and disciplinary importance of drawing and how to enable design creativity and application through its practiced use.
Download or read book Transacting As Art Design and Architecture written by Marsha Bradfield and published by Intellect (UK). This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary anthology exploring alternatives to the principles of commercial markets that dominate contemporary life. The essays in this volume apply an experimental ethos to collaborative cultural production. Expanding the fields of art, design, and architectural research, contributors provide critical reflection on collaborative practice-based research. The volume builds on a pop-up market hosted by the London-based arts cluster Critical Practice that sought to creatively explore existing structures of evaluation and actively produce new ones. Assembled by lead editor Marsha Bradfield, the essays contextualize the event within London's long history of marketplaces, offer reflections from the stallholders, and celebrate its value system, particularly its critique of econometrics. A glossary rounds off the text and opens up the publication as a resource.
Download or read book Architectural Skin from a Vision of Contemporary Art written by Farzaneh Mazraefarahani and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis explores the relationship between contemporary art and architectural skin with the aim of discovering and relations between practices of art and architecture. The motive of this exploration is rooted in my own interests in art which includes painting and hand model making. Art was how I discovered my love for architecture as I was able to express my creativity and imagination through architectural designs. By looking at façade, which arguably has an exhibitive role in architecture similar to that of surface modelled artwork, this thesis is able to investigate and align the two disciplines. The outcome of the thesis is an articulation of the relationship between contemporary art and architecture. The distinction and intersection between art and architecture were realized through research on unconventional façades in relation to art, creation of art inspired hand models and examining their suitability for a façade, and the usage of digital media in design. Driving these investigations were two project vehicles: The re-skinning of an existing building with a new façade; and the design of an art studio for the artist Matthew Shlian. To open the discussion on how contemporary art can impact on façade design, the method of this thesis was to first give priority to an art-oriented design and then solve the architectural issues. However, I found it was important to not allow the technical issues of architecture to dictate and change the nature of the art-driven design. Through discussions and reflections on the design process, this thesis identifies art as an essential aspect not to be held separate from architecture. This artistic essence is able to find its place through not only surfaces and external architectural skins but potentially through structure and interior space as well. Integrating art in architectural façade design is an opportunity to humanize and characterize a building so it may be seen as an intriguing landmark that can easily interact and engage with its observers. Ultimately this thesis has enhanced and repositioned the notion of contemporary art within my architectural practice and created the opportunity for reflection upon my design methodology that I am constantly developing while providing a platform for future investigations.
Download or read book Style Architecture and Building Art written by Hermann Muthesius and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1994-12-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Style-Architecture and Building-Art is Hermann Muthesius’s classic criticism of nineteenth century architecture. Now published for the first time in English, this pivotal text represents the first serious effort by Muthesius to define the elements of early modernist architecture according to notions of realism and simplicity. Although Muthesius is known best in Anglo-American architectural literature for his studies of the English house, his scholarship constituted a wide-ranging modernist polemic emanating from the German realist movement of the late 1890s. Notions that were introduced in Style-Architecture and Building-Art became common in later modernist historiography: disdain for the nineteenth century’s artistic eclecticism and lack of originality; appreciation of the material and industrial aspects of building technology, and, above all, a simpler approach to design. Muthesius' critique of stylistic architecture is not only linked to the development of the Deutsche Werkbund movement, but also can be viewed more broadly as a cornerstone of the modern movement. In his introduction, Standford Anderson situates Muthesius and his work in turn-of-the-century architectural discourse and analyzes his vision of a new form of architecture. Anderson also discusses the rationale underlying the call for cultural renewal, the role of English architectural models in Muthesius’s thought, critical differences between the first and second editions of Style-Architecture and Building-Art, the influence of the Jugendstil and Art Nouveau movements on Muthesius and, in turn, the influence of Muthesius on the Deutsche Werkbund movement.
Download or read book The Built Surface v 1 Architecture and the Visual Arts from Antiquity to the Enlightenment written by Christy Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002: Since antiquity through to the present, architecture and the pictorial arts (paintings, photography, graphic arts) have not been rigidly separated but interrelated - the one informing the other, and establishing patterns of creation and reception. In the Classical tradition the education of the architect and artist has always stressed this relationship between the arts, although modern scholarship has too often treated them as separate disciplines. These volumes explore the history of this exchange between the arts as it emerged from classical theory into artistic and architectural practice. Issues of visual representation, perspective, allegory, site specificity, ornamentation, popular culture, memorials, urban and utopian planning, and the role of treatises, manifestos, and other theoretical writings are addressed, as well as the critical reaction to these products and practices. This title represents a variety of methods, approaches, and diatectical interpretations - cases where architecture informs the themes and physical space of pictures, or pictorial concerns inform the design and construction of the built environment. The exchanges between architecture and pictures explored by these authors are found to be in all cases ideologically potent, and therefore significantly expressive of their respective social, political, and intellectual histories.
Download or read book The Art of Experiment written by Rolf Hughes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook for navigating our troubled and precarious times intended to help readers imagine and make their world anew. In search of new knowledge practices that can help us make the world livable again, this book takes the reader on a journey across time—from the deep past to the unfolding future. The authors search beyond human knowledge to establish negotiated partnerships with forms of knowledge within the planet itself, examining how we have manipulated these historically through an anthropocentric focus. The book explores the many different kinds of knowledge, and the diversity of instruments needed to invoke and actuate the potency of human and nonhuman agencies. Four key phases in our ways of knowing are identified: material, strengthening, reconfiguring and extending, which are exemplified through case studies that take the form of worlding experiments. This pioneering work will inspire architects, artists and designers as well as students, teachers and researchers across arts and design disciplines.
Download or read book Drawn to Design written by Eric Jenkins and published by Birkhaüser. This book was released on 2022-06-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Those Who Learn And Those Who Teach The book is a guide for students and teachers to understand the need for, the role of and the methods and techniques of freehand analytical sketching in architecture. The presentation focuses on drawing as an approach to and phase of architectural design. The conceptual goal of this approach is to use drawing not as illustration or depiction, but as exploration. The first part of the book discusses underlying concepts of freehand sketching in design education and practice as a complement to digital technologies. The main component is a series of chapters that constitute a typology of fundamental issues in architecture and urban design; for instance, issues of "façade" are illustrated with sketch diagrams that show how façades can be explored and sketched through a series of specific questions and step-by-step procedures. In the expanded and updated edition, a new part explores the questions and experiences of large architectural offices in applying freehand drawing in the practice of architectural design. This book is especially timely in an age in which the false conflict between "traditional vs. digital" gives way to multiple design tools, including sketching. It fosters understanding of the essential human ability to investigate the designed and the natural world through freehand drawing.
Download or read book The Genius of Architecture Or The Analogy of that Art with Our Sensations written by Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture, and aesthetics. Camus's description of the French hotel argues that architecture should please the senses and the mind.
Download or read book Is Architecture Art written by John Macarthur and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is architecture an art, like literature or music? Or is it more akin to science or engineering? Can buildings be artworks, just like paintings and sculptures, or does their fundamentally functional nature mean they cannot be considered pure works of art? Questions of architecture, art, and aesthetics do not allow for simple answers. But by asking such questions, we can usefully reveal the ways in which the concepts and meanings of architecture have changed over the centuries, and how they continue to change in the contemporary era. Is Architecture Art? explores the key conceptual questions about the aesthetic appreciation of architecture and its persistently contested status as an artform. It engages the work of thinkers ranging from Hume and Kant to Adorno, Tafuri, and Rancière, and draws on accessible and thought-provoking accounts of historical and contemporary architectural and art theory. Taking novel approaches to issues that will be familiar to the practising architect, it shows how aesthetics and art theory can open up and illuminate architectural theory, issue by issue. Is Architecture Art? will provoke discussion and debate among architects and architectural theorists, and force a new understanding of the purpose of architectural practice in the contemporary era as the concepts of 'art', 'the arts', and of the creative economy have shifted and blurred as never before.
Download or read book Drawing from Practice written by J. Michael Welton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from Practice explores and illuminates the ways that 26 diverse and reputable architects use freehand drawing to shape our built environment. Author J. Michael Welton traces the tactile sketch, from initial parti to finished product, through words, images, and photographs that reveal the creative process in action. The book features drawings and architecture from every generation practicing today, including Aidlin Darling Design, Alberto Alfonso, Deborah Berke, Marlon Blackwell, Peter Bohlin, Warren Byrd, Ellen Cassilly, Jim Cutler, Chad Everhart, Formwork, Phil Freelon, Michael Graves, Frank Harmon, Eric Howeler and Meejin Yoon, Leon Krier, Tom Kundig, Daniel Libeskind, Brian McKay Lyons, Richard Meier, Bill Pedersen, Suchi Reddy, Witold Rybczynski, in situ studio, Laurinda Spear, Stanley Tigerman, and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. Included is a foreword by Robert McCarter, architect, author and professor of architecture.
Download or read book Searching for America written by Robert Sheardy Jr. and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourteen essays in this collection were drawn from papers presented at the annual conference of the American Culture Association in April of 2006. The widely ranging topics and diverse points of view are typical of papers showcased by this organization of educators, writers, cultural critics and graduate students. These essays each consider the pedagogical parameters by which the art of the United States is defined and, as we are a nation of many voices, they further represent the multicultural identities of America and its citizens. From traditional art historical analysis to post-modernist deconstruction, the authors represented herein explore paintings, prints, sculpture, and architectural objects, in the context of history, philosophy, aesthetics, and political points of view. The writers themselves represent multidisciplinary viewpoints, from art history to literature to architecture and social work. Their papers reflect current scholarship, speaking from the most up to date of pedagogies, and in voices which are both critical and analytical. They further speak for the American Culture Association whose mission it is to explore "all manifestations of the cultures of the Americas."
Download or read book Art and Architecture written by Rafeal Mechlore and published by Wsm Publisher. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book "Art and Architecture: Exploring Cultural Heritage Worldwide" is an enthralling excursion into the complex fabric of human history and culture, as seen through the prism of how it has been reflected in various works of art and architecture throughout the world. This meticulously designed investigation goes deep into the worldwide tale of cultural heritage, uncovering the stories, forms, and functions that have molded our world over the course of human history. This book is, at its heart, an elegy to the indefatigable legacy that is left by human creativity. Not only are art and architecture aesthetic expressions, but they are also nuanced representations of communities, beliefs, and the dynamic interplay that occurs between cultures over time and space. This all-encompassing work pays tribute to the significant impact that art and architecture have had on the human experience throughout history. The first part of the book is dedicated to introducing the fundamental concepts necessary for comprehending cultural heritage. This not only provides a definition for the term, but also highlights the intrinsic worth that lies in maintaining and honoring the history of art and architecture. The protection and maintenance of these priceless cultural artifacts are of the utmost importance to ensuring that our shared history will continue to play an active role in both our present and our future. The foundation has been laid, and from here on out, the book will take you on an exciting adventure through the pages of history. It begins with prehistoric and ancient art and architecture, exploring the mysterious cave drawings and enormous megalithic buildings, and then progresses on to the splendor of ancient Egyptian temples, Greek and Roman wonders, and the intricate Byzantine masterpieces. The middle chapters take the readers back in time to the Middle Ages, where they can see the diversity of art and architecture that existed during this time period through the towering Gothic cathedrals of Europe, the intricate architectural marvels of Islam, and the awe-inspiring mosaics created by the Byzantines. Following that, the Renaissance and Baroque chapters explode with the inventiveness of Italian masters, the opulence of Baroque Europe, and the mysticism of Mesoamerican monuments. The book continues its trip through time by bringing in the Age of Enlightenment and Neoclassicism. It does so by exhibiting architectural representations of Enlightenment principles, the Neoclassical revival, and the various colonial architectural forms found around the world. It transports readers back to the 19th century, bringing Victorian architecture, Art Nouveau, and the radically altering effects of industrialization on urban areas to vivid life on the pages they turn. As the story moves into the 20th century, the reader is introduced to the radical developments that were ushered in by the Modernist and Avant-Garde movements. These movements were led by trailblazers such as the Bauhaus School and Frank Lloyd Wright. The events that took place after World War II ushered in a period marked by architectural experimentation and invention, which altered the appearance of the urban landscape. The reader is taken on a journey through time that culminates in the modern era, where issues of ecological responsibility, green building, and public art are at the cutting edge of design. In addition to this, it delves into the fascinating world of non-Western art and architecture, with an emphasis on the cultures of China, Japan, Africa, and native peoples.
Download or read book Trading Places written by David Hamers and published by dpr-barcelona. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trading Places rethinks, develops, and tests design-driven practices and methods to engage with participation in public space and public issues. With this book we aim to help art and design researchers, students, practitioners, and the multiple stakeholders they collaborate with, to explore what participatory ways of working in our contemporary urban environment entail. Six approaches are discussed: intervention, performative mapping, play, data mining, modelling in dialogue, and curating. Each approach offers a different kind of logic and produces a different type of knowledge. Trading Places invites the reader to discover common ground, explore new territories, and exchange points of view – in short, to trade perspectives on issues of participation.
Download or read book The Urban Gaze Exploring Urbanity through Art Architecture Music Fashion Film and Media written by Silvia Mazzucotelli Salice and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates urbanity as a cultural form. The essays illustrate the real and imaginary ways that we interact with the cities through the portal of the arts.
