Architectural forms refer to the shapes and designs that make up buildings or structures. It includes the overall shape, layout, and style of a building, such as its roof, walls, windows, and doors. Essentially, it refers to the different physical elements and features that give a building its unique and recognizable appearance.
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Just completed, this engineering and architectural modern masterpiece is a one - of - a-kind residence made from the highest level
of architectural formed concrete, glass and steel.
Yet, such relationship is not limited to the influence than nature historically has always had
on architectural forms and / or materials.
Through their engagement with
specific architectural forms, the works in the exhibition offer insights into distinct cultural contexts, histories and social struggles.
His interest is in the linear elements of urban landscapes and the geometric building blocks
of architectural forms.
They are similar in size to portable two - way radio sets but could also be seen
as architectural forms — miniaturized radio stations transmitting and receiving radio waves, coded SMS messages, heavy musical broadcasts and ominous weather reports.
The talented artist makes abstract
architectural forms from discarded scrap wood with passion and claims that listening to his favorite music while cutting is the way he makes all the stresses of the world go away.
Mauro Giaconi creates sculptures, installations, and drawings based on
abstracted architectural forms such as as pipes, structures, columns, and tools.
The Impala has a few interesting
architectural forms within the cabin and it's headed in the right direction (which is to say, far away from the anonymity of its predecessor).
His two - dimensional works became increasingly three - dimensional during the late 1970s and early 1980s and began to incorporate
architectural forms made from materials such as aluminum and fibreglass.
Architectural firm MVRDV has revolutionized perceptions of the built environment through the use of digital technologies, such as for Glass Farm in the Netherlands (2008 — 13) that broadens the aesthetics and vocabulary of
architectural form through digital experimentation.
Instead, her strange forms, which depict things such as spiders,
architectural forms such as houses and cages, and the human body, explored themes of loneliness, conflict, frustration, vulnerability, sexual desire, and love.
Warsaw - based Monika Sosnowska
builds architectural forms in response to specific spaces, then manipulates them, collapsing, deflating, and squeezing the work into alternate settings.
As MIRAGE pulls the landscape in and reflects it back out, its familiar
architectural form becomes a framing device, a visual echo - chamber endlessly reflecting both the dream of nature as a pure uninhabited state and the pursuit of its conquest.
A concentration of
architectural forms at the center is built in firm black outlines: remember her niece's admonition that this is an artist of line and its calligraphic potential as much as color.
Inspired by the energy and vitality of the urban landscape and the designed world, she
uses architectural forms as a structuring compositional device.
Pernice transforms basic
architectural forms into sculpture using inexpensive building materials such as untreated wood and often attaches newspaper clippings and photographic reproductions to the work's surface.
This communicative capacity is provided by classical and
historical architectural forms — and also by more elaborate and visually complex postmodern designs.
Throughout this Anguillan resort, opened in 2009 on this the Caribbean island of Anguilla,
modern architectural forms interplay with the natural environment, while sophisticated, contemporary interiors by designer Kelly Wearstler add rich textural contrasts to a laid - back, beachy feel.
The cone, as symbol of the «sacred mountain», has been the
basic architectural form for places of worship throughout Asia and the Indian subcontinent.
Close by to the Neue Nationalgalerie, Hans Sharoun's Berliner Philharmonie and the Sony Center's edifice, the floorplan of such an everyday space from now on keeps company with
other architectural forms of assumed significance.
Brooklyn - based artist Cheryl Molnar's collage paintings are representations of fantastical, natural spaces in relationship to
urban architectural forms.
The outdoor exhibition will comprise three exquisite sculptures in painted wood and prismatic glass: minimal,
almost architectural forms that will create new spaces within the Park for the creation of music, dance, and poetry: a curvilinear, translucent blue sound wall for experimental music; a circular, reflective green floor for vanguard dance; and a vaulted - roofed luminous red and yellow pavilion for poetry.
A suite of large paintings, produced in 2014 and 2015, shows women in patterned garments interacting within
simple architectural forms; Arabic script annotates the figures.
Opening February 1, 2014 with a reception for the artists February 6th On display will be new work by Tahiti Pehrson who continues to pursue the notions of connectivity, repetition, and
complex architectural forms in the natural world.
In a photographic project spanning five decades, Bernd and Hilla Becher documented the soon - to -
be-forgotten architectural forms of industry — Mine Heads, Blast Furnaces, Water Towers, Coal Bunkers, Cooling Towers, Industrial Facades, Gas Tanks, Grain Elevators, to name but a few.
At Addison / Ripley Gallery, painter Trevor Young suspends
imagined architectural forms in his pieces; while at Washington Printmakers Gallery, Douglas Bosley shows an imagined world with colonies of micro-robots in his finely detailed mezzotints.
Shrinking Room is a monumental, wood sculpture that
merges architectural form with text to address issues of wealth inequality.
ECE Architecture's interactive artwork takes a
familiar architectural form and places it out of context to create a playful environment.
London exhibition, planned before architect's death, will feature drawings that shine a light on how she thought about architectural forms
Khedoori frequently
depicts architectural forms from distanced perspectives, rendering commonplace objects and spaces familiar yet decontextualized.
Her unique style
combined architectural forms, complex scaffolding and post-apocalyptic structures against backgrounds of vast and endless horizons.
«I wish to warn young men against the invincible attraction of theories which simplify and unify seductively... We fall into the trap all the more readily when the simple schemes stimulate and appeal to tendencies deeply rooted in our minds, the congenital inclination to economy of mental effort and the almost irresistible propensity to regard as true what satisfies our aesthetic sensibility by appearing in agreeable and
harmonious architectural forms.
In previous investigations, the Yan group created
subtle architectural forms at an astonishingly minute scale, some measuring only tens of nanometers across — roughly the diameter of a virus particle.