Sentences with phrase «architectural forms for»

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Young British designer Adam Nathaniel Furman is making waves for dressing up architectural forms in drag.

Paolo Soleri has conceived of an alternative form of urban life in which the architectural ecology — arcology for short — would promote both justice and the environment.

An extensive background and numerous skills in architectural design, a lifelong passion for art, and a penchant for culture has provided Laura Dittrich, a visual storyteller based in Germany, with a keen eye for aesthetics and a unique creative vision materialized through aesthetic visuals such as cinemagraphs and experimental video content in the form of outfit editorials (cinematorials).

Using engineering performance evaluations to explore design alternatives during the conceptual phase of architectural design helps to understand the relationships between form and performance; and is crucial for developing well - performing final designs.

As a senior partner in an Architectural firm, Roy's interstate and overseas trips for business were used to meet with German Shepherd breeders and Clubs in all states and convince them to form a national body for the benefit of the breed.

Back Door is a large area of huge boulders that have formed some amazing architectural landscapes underwater, perfect for the growth of ecosystems and for fish to hide.

Then came curved canvases, in the form of his protractors: concentric arcs of the sort of solid colours found in posters for Woodstock, and which have graced decades of pages of Architectural Digest.

Recognized internationally for his unique glass sculptures and large - scale works for public spaces, Howard Ben Tré makes reference to historical architectural forms, industrial shapes and Read More»

So, for me, there can be no confusion on this point, Abstract sculpture does not need any longer the support of the human body or any body or plant or architectural form or engineering phenomenon or anything else to play a supporting role and share in what is to come.

Across the show, huge forms forged from wood, fabric, foam, mesh, and plaster resemble giant improvised toys and architectural decorations designed for elaborate stage sets.

For me it resembles architectural forms or possibly a spiral staircase.

For the artist, they question the nature of place, cornered and defined by biomorphic forms, architectural markers, ambiguous atmospheres, and the influence of perspective both near and far.

Ulf Puder, the Leipzig painter, returns for his third solo show with the gallery, featuring new work of his enigmatic, quasi-abstract architectural forms.

For this series, she began redrawing some of his original architectural drawings, plans and elevations from the 1960's and 70's, changed their scale, and using silvered mylar she collaged them to make the buildings take form.

His experiments in sculptural form and spatial relationships led to a number of architectural commissions culminating in his work for a housing estate at Peterlee, County Durham.

Art received the International Art Critics Association (AICA - USA)'s 2010 Second Place award for «Best Project in a Public Space» for the organization's exhibition of Antony Gormley: Event Horizon, which featured 31 sculptures of the human form placed in and around Madison Square Park and on the rooftops of architectural treasures throughout New York City's Flatiron District and environs.

She is widely known for her simultaneous engagement with academic scholarship and contemporary architectural practice and for interest in the intersection of architecture and other art forms.

For more than twenty years, Mark Manders has developed an endless self - portrait that has taken the forms of sculpture, still life, and architectural plans.

Sharing Saarinen's affection for expressive forms, Birkerts is noted for architectural designs that are highly evocative and that emphasize the dynamic flow and illumination of space.

Aaron Siskind (1903 — 1991) is best known for his abstract photographs, often of natural forms or architectural features that were manipulated in order to produce unfamiliar images.

The show features a recent body of work that represents a creative shift for MacPhee, known for her use of architectural forms to explore the concept of dystopian realities.

For the fourth installation at Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite, renowned sculptor Elspeth Pratt draws on architectural forms as inspiration to investigate how built environments define public space.

Absent or present, the human figure is a constant element in his work, whether in the form of bodies in action, satirical caricatures, or animistic sculptures; as the residue of a private ritual; or as architectural space left uninhabited for the viewer to occupy.

Merging his traditional graffiti education, his inclination toward «certain colour forms and certain application techniques», with his deep love of illustration and preliminary design, his fondness for «drafts, architectural renderings and pre-production concepts», Kofie plays with form and line, with balance and depth, twisting and manipulating his murals, his illustrations, his compositions, into ever new and dramatic arrangements.

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.

Two Studies for Tenayuca (ca. 1938), for instance, show Albers riffing on what looks almost like a three - axis architectural drawing of some sculptural form.

For an exhibition, I make a rather strict form, an architectural plan, and then I work with many people from the museum and they begin to fill it in.

«Shallow Sun» will be presented inside and adjacent to The Aldrich's camera obscura, a permanent architectural feature of the Museum building containing a device that formed the basis for all photographic technology.

For more than twenty years the artist has been using diverse mediums and many kinds of objects — including electric lights, fabric, wax, wood and mirrors — to explore architectural space, the nature of materials in abstract forms and the spectator's response to all of them.

Two years earlier, at Roche Court sculpture park, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, the couple had shown together for the first time in their marriage: he with a dozen huge, rusted steel pieces from the series called Flats, made in 1974 in Canada with the aid of a crane; she indoors with a sequence of vibrantly coloured canvases painted with architectural forms not far distant from his.

Tadao Ando has achieved international acclaim for his uncompromising architectural vision, which elevates the use of simple materials and forms to create spaces that appeal equally to precision and emotion.

Pratt Institute alumni and Undergraduate Architecture department faculty members Ajmal Aqtash (B. Arch» 01) and Richard Sarrach (B. Arch» 01), along with their partner and Pratt alumnus Tamaki Uchikawa (B. Arch» 01), received the 30th annual Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers for their firm Form - ula's innovative design work.

Stella's proclivity for constantly challenging himself continued in the mid-1980s, when the increasingly deep relief of his paintings gave way to full three - dimensionality, with sculptural forms derived from cones, pillars, French curves, waves, and decorative architectural elements.

When grouped as individuals the tentacles take on interesting architectural forms with great potential for large scale sculptures

Takahiro Iwasaki is known for his hanging architectural models of traditional Japanese buildings with reflected or mirrored forms, creating an optical affect as if the space around them were water.

It's in this phenomenological condition for the possibility of things where meaning takes on new forms and where the viewer is engaged in more precarious and unpredictable encounters with sculptural and architectural constructions.

For more than two decades, Mark Manders has developed an endless self - portrait in the form of sculpture, still life, and architectural plans.

In his video «The Living Room,» artist Patrick McElnea conflates photographs and magazine cut - outs of architectural interiors and exteriors, real space and pictorial space, creating a theatrical stage set that forms the backdrop for his exploration of various identities.

Slight in scale, approximately the size of a book, each piece offers a different tableau: minimalist forms, architectural elements, flattened perspectives, proposals for land art, or Martian carvings.

Over the years he worked at these collages, 1954 to 1960, he became more adept at body language for his figures and at paring extraneous detail from architectural and landscape forms.

The manipulation of objects and material and pushing for invention through process reveals an attempt to balance and study ideas of beauty, form, and structure through an architectural and pragmatic narrative.

For this project, her second large - scale painting installation and first public artwork, Balco uses the vernacular of painting — form and color — to stage interventions in existing architectural spaces that transform the way we think about public and private space.

In this instance the air conditioning unit exists as a dysfunctional apparatus for the architectural form that simultaneously exudes hot and cold air as a result of an internal crisis.

Derived from the figure and mythic narratives, Hadzi's sculpture references antiquity and classical artifacts — abstracted anatomical forms, columnar and other architectural elements, helmets, weaponry and body armor function as visual metaphors for ancient cultures.

For Sottsass, creating a lexicon of design that incorporated emotive, sensorial and humanist concerns was a rebellion against post-war rationalist architecture that valued function over form, and left human nature largely out of the architectural equation.

These textile patterns, sourced from early - 20th century women artists such as Sonia Delaunay or Barbara Stepanova, take on architectural scale and form the backdrop for interiors and table - top tableaux.

The American artist Dan Graham (born 1942 in Urbana, Illinois) is known for his architectural sculptures in the form of complex glas pavilions based on simple geometrical forms and made of metal and two - way mirror glas.

Moussavi is a columnist for the Architectural Review magazine and has published three books, The Function of Ornament, The Function of Forms, and The Function of Style based on her research and teaching at Harvard.

The very large - scale sculpture, Primary Producers, which inhabits the whole of the main gallery, is an architectural form reminiscent of the more progressive play structures for children that were popular in the 1970s, or a skater - proof city centre streetscape.

The architectural style reflects the contemporary 18th - century fashion for classical Roman forms.