Sentences with phrase «builds architectural forms»

Warsaw - based Monika Sosnowska builds architectural forms in response to specific spaces, then manipulates them, collapsing, deflating, and squeezing the work into alternate settings.
The colors and forms are similar to Donald Judd (Vinciarelli's decade - long partner), Dan Flavin and James Turrell, and the viewer can feel her proximity to them, especially in the use of light to build architectural forms.
Sosnowska's work involves modifying pre-existing or purpose - built architectural forms, transforming the physical space into mental space and playing with the viewers» perceptions.

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In order to construct a house, bricks and other building materials are necessary; so are the builders who put the materials into place; and so is the architectural plan which determines the form of the house.
The new building will have a freer architectural form than existing BMC structures.
«We believe that the ideal learning environment begins with a building that inspires and motivates by its architectural form.
Hotel building is characterized by the perfect architectural composition: the central segment with the up rushed tower, crowned with the spire, is balanced with solidity and strict forms of the side wings.
How to Build a House Museum invites visitors to tour the house museum in its many possible forms: as an architectural monument, historical representation, or site of freedom.
These latest works celebrate the diversity of the city's architectural forms, from landmarks such as the elaborate façade of the Castro Theatre and the Victorian confection known as the Conservatory of Flowers — a landmark building in Golden Gate Park — to residential neighborhoods that reward sustained looking.
Prior to moving to our new building at 38 St. Marks Place in 2017, exhibitions and public programs are focused on temporary structures — including publishing formats, social experiments and architectural forms — set against the fast - mutating landscape of downtown Manhattan.
Built from a renovated warehouse by local designer Margi Glavovic Nothard, the Girls» Club facility boasts stunning architectural elements including re-purposed industrial materials, back - lit resin panels that form an illuminated exterior facade, rotating inner walls that offer flexibility of design and a critically acclaimed collection of over 700 works on art.
Prior to moving to our new building at 38 St. Marks Place, exhibitions and public programs are focused on temporary structures — including publishing formats, social experiments and architectural forms — set against the fast - mutating landscape of downtown Manhattan.
Project Space Festival Day 10: Raumerweiterungshalle The Raumerweiterungshalle, or «spatial extension container», is a portable architectural form designed in the 1960s and 1970s in the DDR — a building in eight pieces that can telescope in on itself.
His interest is in the linear elements of urban landscapes and the geometric building blocks of architectural forms.
In her compositions Jebavy often includes glassware forms that call to mind other Baroque artworks, such as Bernini's expansive Baldachin in St. Peter's Cathedral, or illusionistic Italian ceiling paintings and cathedrals, building altar - like architectural spaces that are at once intimate, domestic, and banal, and monumental, metaphysical, and transcendental.
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.
The ramp, formed by a variety of materials that range from generic folding chairs to conventional industrial building materials and scrap wood from a previous installation, is not fixed, so that the substructure can compress into spaces, against walls, into corners, and wrap around architectural details.
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.
Mr. Guillot, who is 40 and earns his living building architectural models, makes quirky but beautifully balanced forms that range from paperweight size to several feet high: a one - toed foot, a pair of boxy lips, a drooping No. 4, and several lopsided wheels.
Most salient throughout both exhibitions is that architectural forms in either city have continued to affect and be affected by their present usage — even if the demands of its inhabitants come at the expense of the building itself.
Often inspired by dystopian and science fiction films, I combine recognizable architectural forms and impossible buildings to make diorama-esque works.
«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.
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.
In addition to questioning the function of architecture, the artist approached buildings as structures and in the form of an applied sociopolitical, architectural criticism, formulating the idea of space as variable in meaning and experience.
The experience of Floored asks us to reconsider the architectural conversations at play within the space — and this line of questioning is not Paula Wilson's first foray into the appropriation of traditional forms of building adornment like tapestries and rugs.
Lindsay Seers» work encompasses film, photography, performance and set — building often brought together in architectural installations which resonate with the layered narratives and unfolding histories forming emotional landscapes.
Model detail showing federal building, which deploys novel architectural forms as a means of direct political engagement.
Together with the Stadtcasino, the three buildings form a distinctive architectural feature of Basel's city center, unifying music, theater, and the fine arts in an urban ensemble.
Trying to understand the phenomenon of an Organic Form in the Built Environment, I have made a series of paintings which would fall into the category of architectural impressions.
The study models are not strictly architectural but are made from wood, porcelain, resin, concrete, textiles and even musical instruments; the studio uses them to investigate ideas before arriving at a building's final form.
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 expArchitectural 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 exparchitectural form through digital experimentation.
Burgess chooses buildings with clean lines, geometric shapes and strong architectural forms then minimizes the details.
According to his entry in Benezit, Schuster's paintings «are very structured, built on geometrical forms painted in areas of flat colour which are nevertheless reminiscent of landscapes and architectural views.
Framing the pure architecture of the Avery Memorial, Soares built a new architectural feature within the gallery in the form of a labyrinthine sculpture zig - zagging through the space.
Biomorphic forms also featured in his architectural projects of the period, in particular the TWA airline building at JFK Airport in New York (1956 - 62).
Building upon his previous shows, the artist describes this latest exhibition as more expansive, incorporating more architectural elements and form than previously, while breaking away from his usual symmetry, to explore a new kind of balance.
Case Work marks the first time that the public will be able to view the artistic explorations of material, form, and spatial experience that have guided the firm's architectural designs, including both realized buildings and projects that have yet to take shape.
This renewable form of energy production is thus visible from outside the building, and is an intentional part of the architectural concept.
But Hansmeyer's prototype is very real — in fact, it can even support weight, and the designer wants to experiment with more robust materials so that he can actually start building real structures with his «computational» architectural forms.
The Pritzker winner from 1998, Renzo Piano, has gained greater visibility because of the graceful combination of architectural forms and light - filled spaces in his newly built Modern Wing addition at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Absolute World Towers, which form part of a five - building complex and were designed by the architectural practices MAD and Burka Architects, won over the jury primarily through their unmistakable design: «The way the two structures twist organically by up to eight degrees per floor is not just a superb technical achievement, but also a refreshing change to the set forms of high - rise routine,» says the panel of experts in explaining the choice of the pair of towers, 176 and 158 meters tall, as the winner.
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