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Structure and form in design : critical ideas for creative practice.
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ISBN: 9781847887429 9781847887436 1847887422 1847887430 Year: 2012 Publisher: London Berg

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This book provides a critical examination of structure and form in design, covering a range of topics of great value to students and practitioners engaged in any of the specialist decorative arts and design disciplines. The complexities of two-dimensional phenomena are explained and illustrated in detail, while various three-dimensional forms are also discussed. In the context of the decorative arts and design, structure is the underlying framework, and form the resultant, visible, two- or three-dimensional outcome of the creative process. Whether hidden or visually detectable in the final design, structure invariably determines whether or not a design is successful in terms of both its aesthetics and its practical performance. Hann successfully identifies various geometric concepts, and presents and discusses a number of simple guidelines to assist the creative endeavours of both accomplished and student practitioners, teachers and researchers.


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Patterns and layering : Japanese spatial culture, nature and architecture.
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ISBN: 9783899554618 3899554612 Year: 2012 Publisher: Berlin Gestalten

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Lightness and transparency in contemporary Japanese architecture explored and explained by Kengo Kuma Laboratory. In Japanese art and textile printing, the use of patterns has a long tradition. In Japanese architecture, layering is an established technique that has already inspired the likes of Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe. Now, the laboratory of world famous architect Kengo Kuma has developed a technically sophisticated methodology that unites patterns and layering in a single structural concept for the first time. Patterns and Layering presents innovative structures that are created by stacking fragile, patterned layers. Although each individual layer contains a variety of patterns, it nevertheless still completely fulfills its structural responsibilities. The results are strikingly delicate, yet remarkably stable. The book s detailed texts explain how layering and patterns function as spatial tools with which one can create extraordinary structures that are able to coexist in harmony with nature, people, and culture. Patterns and Layering not only explores historical contexts and developments, but also shows cutting-edge experiments that were realized under the supervision of Kengo Kuma and his colleague Yusuke Obuchi. According to Kuma, this book has the potential to begin a new architectural and design revolution. Editors Salvator-John A. Liotta and Matteo Belfiore, as well as other contributors, work closely with Kengo Kuma at his research laboratory at the University of Tokyo. Including design details such as silkscreen prints and calligraphy, Patterns and Layering embodies the Japanese understanding of space, nature, and architecture page for page, layer for layer.


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Het zinderend oppervlak : metselwerkverband als patroonkunst en compositiegereedschap
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ISBN: 9789082466805 9082466805 Year: 2016 Publisher: [Delft] Koen Mulder

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Het boek 'Het Zinderend Oppervlak. metselwerkverband als patroonkunst en compositiegereedschap' gaat over patroonkunst met baksteen.Het boek verdiept zich eerst in de traditionele metselverbanden en beschrijft het de systematiek van verbandspatronen. Vervolgens laat het zien hoe het verband met zijn stapeling, secundaire motief en bijzondere hoekoplossingen dienst kan doen als maat- en proportiesysteem voor de ontwerper. Daarna volgen de bijzonderheden van laag- en legpatronen om ten slotte te besluiten met andere steenformaten en nieuwe productie- en toepassingstechnieken van baksteen bekeken vanuit patroonkunst, reliëf en schaduwwerking.Baksteen – dat zware materiaal, dat zo... zwaarwichtig is. Maar als je diep graaft biedt het zoveel mogelijkheden. Het heeft altijd een schaal, en de afmetingen zijn verbonden met de menselijke hand die de stenen legt – daarmee bepaalt het de schaal zelf. En het kan gevormd worden, vormen kunnen worden samengesteld, de constructie wordt begrijpelijk – we weten allemaal hoe een boog in baksteen eruit ziet en hoe deze werkt. Maar met dit boek krijgen we ook toegang tot alle mogelijke variaties van patronen die gemaakt kunnen worden als we beginnen met ontwerpen. En het geeft de mogelijkheid om te werken met licht en schaduw, op zo’n manier dat het de massiviteit van het oppervlak ondersteunt. Dus stel je voor hoe het strijklicht op een zonnige morgen het rode, goedgeconstrueerde oppervlak aanraakt, zo mooi en expressief. Begin met en geniet van dit boek van een gekke kerel.


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Sempering : process and pattern in architecture and design
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ISBN: 9788836634392 8836634397 Year: 2016 Publisher: Milano Silvana Editoriale

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Within a varied contemporary panorama, the exhibition displays a selection of 'design events' of different kinds and of different scales, organised into eight possible actions; eight metamorphoses capable of transforming materials or components into 'artefacts', into active elements of our daily lives and culture.The four categories formulated a hundred and fifty years ago by Gottfried Semper, and doubled in number to bring them up to date with contemporary conditions, are used as a grid to organise the complex structure of the artificial environment; and as the instrument for a possible revision of the axioms and methods of 'modern design', in its constant attempt to adapt them to the problems and aspirations of a complex world.Sempering looks at architecture, landscapes and objects of the last decade crossing the established boundaries of every possible system of the arts, of every division in skills and sectors. Actions such as stacking heavy blocks, connecting light structures, moulding soft materials, engraving fire casings, folding tin sheets, weaving threads, arranging tiles or blowing air can be seen as basic actions capable of inventing unexpected forms by the use of new technologies, but also as the testing of well-established 'customs' of formal traditions in their response to new conditions.


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""Muster - Ornament, Struktur und Verhalten""
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ISBN: 9783764389543 3764389540 3038210773 303460887X 9783034608879 Year: 2009 Publisher: Basel De Gruyter

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As models and paradigms, patterns have been helping to orient architects since the Middle Ages. But patterns are also the basis of the history of ornament, an aesthetic phenomenon that links all times and cultures at a fundamental level. Ornament - and hence pattern as well - was abolished by the avant-garde in the first half of the twentieth century, but the notion of pattern has taken on new meaning and importance since the 1960's. Complexity research has ultimately shown that even highly complex, dynamic patterns may be based on simple behavioral rules, and that has allowed the notions of pattern and pattern formation to take on new meanings, that are also central for architecture. Today the use of generative computerized methods is opening up new ways of talking about an idea that is becoming increasingly abstract and dynamic. Pattern explores the question: what are the notions of pattern that must be discussed in the context of contemporary architecture? Complex patterns are founded on simple rules. Pattern and pattern formation are of new, important significance as the fundamental principles of systematization and description of very complex processes and phenomena. Which idea of pattern has to be used in the architectural discourse today?


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Patterns. 2 : design, art and architecture.
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ISBN: 9783764386443 9783764386436 Year: 2008 Publisher: Berlin Birkhäuser

Decoding homes and houses
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ISBN: 0521572843 0521543517 9780521543514 9780511518294 9780521572842 0511518293 0511822812 Year: 1998 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Houses are not just assemblages of individual rooms but intricate patterns of organised space, governed by rules and conventions about the size and configuration of rooms, which domestic activities go together, how the interior should be decorated and furnished and what kinds of household object are appropriate in each setting, how family members relate to one another in different spaces, and how and where guests should be received and entertained in the home. Decoding Homes and Houses introduces new, computer-based techniques designed to retrieve and interpret this wealth of social and symbolic information. The various representations and measures show how domestic space provides a shared framework for everyday life, how social meanings are constructed in the home and how different sub-groups within society differentiate themselves through their patterns of domestic space and lifestyles.

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Architecture, Domestic --- Architecture and society --- Space (Architecture) --- Personal space --- Architecture domestique --- Architecture et société --- Espace (Architecture) --- Espace personnel --- Psychological aspects. --- Aspect psychologique --- Dwellings --- 728.01 --- Patronen (architectuur) --- 008 --- 13 --- 159.9 --- 159.92 --- Domiciles --- Homes --- Houses --- One-family houses --- Residences --- Residential buildings --- Single-family homes --- Buildings --- House-raising parties --- Household ecology --- Housing --- House plans --- Human territoriality --- Interpersonal relations --- Space --- Spatial behavior --- Architecture and space --- Space and architectural mass --- Space in architecture --- Architecture --- City planning --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Design and construction --- Social aspects. --- Wonen (theorie) --- Wonen (filosofie) --- Cultuur --- Cultuurfilosofie --- Psychologie --- Omgevingspsychologie --- Composition, proportion, etc. --- Social aspects --- Human factors --- Design and construction&delete& --- Psychological aspects --- Negative space (Architecture) --- 728.1 --- Woningbouw ; àGroot-Brittannië ; patronen ; modellen --- Woningbouw ; grondplannen ; plannen --- Woningbouw ; woonhuizen --- Arts and Humanities --- Architecture, Fine and Decorative Arts --- Architecture, Domestic - England --- Space (Architecture) - England - Psychological aspects --- Personal space - England - Psychological aspects --- Architecture and society - England

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