Sentences with phrase «american vernacular architecture»

And yes — I love wrap - around porches, one of the features I * love * about American vernacular architecture.

American vernacular architecture has been a consistent visual motif in Armajani's practice, and is embodied in his public works, including bridges, gardens, and outdoor rooms.

With a broad range of materials including ceramics, Duke creates representational and abstract compositions and installations that use patterns, shapes, and structures from American vernacular architecture and the tools and objects of industry.

It's also embodied in «Beverly Buchanan — Ruins and Rituals» at the Brooklyn Museum, a full - career look at an artist who invested much of her energy in reconstituting, in miniature, African - American vernacular architecture of the Carolinas and Georgia, where she grew up.

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Works in various scale create dynamic spatial relationships: a metal structure covered with accumulated bottles sits on the floor, informed by vernacular architecture as well as the cotillion, a social dance originating in France in the 18th century and further developed by African Americans in the United States; and a chandelier of oversized cowrie shells hangs dramatically within a large and site - specific yurt - like structure.

Cleaned and label - free, the bottles are presented as an archive of the community's consumption (and the fascinating history of cognac within the African American community), using a display form inspired by Puerto Rican vernacular architecture that combines decoration, comfort and security.

The houses and outbuildings she paints are characterized by the plainspoken vernacular of American architecture, which reinforces the poet John Yau's argument, in a catalogue essay, that she is an heir to Edward Hopper.

Inspired by the Neue Sachlichkeit photographers August Sander and Albert Renger - Patzsch, as well by as vernacular photography, Bernd and Hilla Becher documented vanishing American and European industrial architecture — blast furnaces, water towers, silos, and the like — cataloguing them by type.

He has been interested in the Latin American Modernist Movement's often un-acknowledged debt to vernacular world architecture.

Marianne Vitale (b. 1973, United States) creates installations inspired by vernacular architecture and American folklore.

These include his relationship with education, his links with modernist architecture, his view of the tradition of painting and of American literature, and his approach to the vernacular, popular culture, youthful initiatory rites and styles of musical subcultures.

Her writings on history, Indigenous art, and vernacular architecture have been published by MIT Press, BlackDog Publishing, Revolver Press, New York University, The Fillip Review, Canadian Art Magazine and the National Museum of the American Indian, among others.

Her writings on history, art, and vernacular architecture have been published by MIT Press, BlackDog Publishing, Revolver Press, New York University, the Fillip Review and the National Museum of the American Indian, among others.

Artist Statement: Though the image of the heroic American agrarian has been obscured by an industrial model, the «human interface» — and the implied connection to the land — remains an icon, along with pastoral vistas, vernacular architecture, and the family farm.

Theatre also features architectural drawings and photographs that, across decades, have documented American vernacular suburban architecture.

Recognized throughout his career with honors and awards, Blackwell received a 2012 AIA National Honor Award and the 2012 Architecture Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for a unique use of design strategies that draw upon vernaculars and contradictions of place to transgress conventional boundaries for architecture.