Sentences with phrase «vernacular architecture in»

«I went into that landscape, in Tuscaloosa and Hale counties primarily, and began to photograph the things that caught my eye, the vernacular architecture in particular, the country graveyards, which were beautiful things.

Titled «While We Wait,» the exhibition investigated the possibility of erecting a meditation space combining innovative stone design and evoking the vernacular architecture in the Cremisan Valley, a lush patch of land wedged between the West Bank and Jerusalem.

Beverly Buchanan (born 1940) examines southern vernacular architecture in her vibrant and expressive sculpture, paintings and photographs.

In his two - page letter to the town, Krattinger called the Vanderbilt House «an exceptional example of Dutch vernacular architecture in Rockland County,» noting «and it has survived, perhaps somewhat remarkably, with its original floor plan and the bulk of its interior features intact.»

Recent feminist authors and visual artists explore the «trending» parallels between vernacular architectures in virtual and (sub) urban spaces.

Not exact matches

The Mission Revival style of architecture, and subsequent Spanish Colonial Revival style, have historical, narrative — nostalgic, cultural — environmental associations, and climate appropriateness that have made for a predominant historical regional vernacular architecture style in the Southwestern United States, especially in California.

The architecture is in the Caribbean vernacular with plantation shutters painted a cool grey against which the palms, lawns and forest appear all the more green.

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.

The video Present Perfect reflects the origins and results of these inspirations through a journey that captures folklore impulses observed in Japanese landscape, gardens and vernacular architecture to present a contemporary reinterpretation of their fundamental values found not only in Metabolism but also in Tokyo's metropolitan manifestation.

Blades conjoins the spiritual with the vernacular in an intense «architecture of objects.»

Although criticized by some for the poverty reflected in the shacks, Ms. Buchanan believes her work to be a true reflection of the Southern vernacular architecture and the reality of current places and their surrounding landscape.

In the Courtyard, Street's Portrait of a Barn: 1840 - 2015 (2015) reconstructs the facade of a found image of an Appalachian cantilevered barn typical of the vernacular architecture of her childhood region of Virginia.

He juxtaposes modernist architecture with structures common in Latin America — favela shacks, adobe and vernacular buildings — and he incorporates aspects of the do - it - yourself economy to find practical solutions when resources are scarce.

The introduction establishes the importance of Black artisans in colonial New Orleans and references the emergence of iconic cultural forms including jazz, vernacular architecture, politically significant moments in New Orleans history (Plessy v. Ferguson), and food.

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.

With more than 100,000 images, nearly all photos taken by Mr. Satterthwaite, the Slide Collection offers an expansive view of land uses, the built environment, and vernacular architecture primarily in North America.

Tapping the traditions of documentary and conceptual photography, Leonard's project, which she developed during a residency at the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio, is positioned within the genealogy of the grand visual archives that extend from Eugène Atget's Paris «then and now,» to August Sander's Face of Our Time, to Bernd and Hilla Becher's typologies of vernacular architecture.

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.

Their installation will feature a new video work, interacting portraits in the round, sculptures that reference vernacular architecture, and an opening night performance on wheels.

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

However, Purifoy's peers in the community of Black artists in Los Angeles, such as Powell, identify influences in his work ranging from George Washington Carver to vernacular architectures of the Deep South to Congolese fetish sculptures.

Inhabiting an architectural genre somewhere between the humble shed and a full - blown home, this is vernacular architecture that allows the owner to rehearse their personality in public.

Arriving in Seattle from Amsterdam shortly after World War II, he began photographing a newly discovered landscape of billboards, vernacular architecture, and neon signs.

In a similar manner, collages and drawings by William Cordova amalgamate images to represent the body's relationship to vernacular architecture, sound, pop culture, and politics.

This London - based solo exhibition records an ongoing concern with the notion of architecture as an environment for recreation, in a new body of work that contrasts the modernism of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe with Brohm's study of vernacular German allotment buildings of the late 1970s, Typology.

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.

The masonry - framed windows of Harlem's vernacular architecture nd an echo in the rhythmic composition of the facade, with its textured, precast concrete and windows of varying proportions.

Drawing on the visual language of architecture and functional design, Djordjadze creates sculptural environments that foreground the lasting legacy of Modernism while evoking the vernacular and folk traditions native to the Caucasus region in the Republic of Georgia.

Until 1949, when O'Keeffe moved permanently to New Mexico, the Northeast — particularly Lake George — and the Southwest were the primary places in which O'Keeffe worked — where she saw, absorbed, and responded to her natural surroundings, the varying and variable landscapes, and the vernacular architecture of the regions; where she reinterpreted these subjects in her work; and through which she defined the first decades of her career.

A scalable industrialized concept ensuring the replicability, strong environmental and economic impact in the region, adaptable to the cultural and climatic context, largely inspired by vernacular architecture

While embracing traditional farmstead design made it trickier for this new build home in the Scottish Highlands to meet the coveted passive house standard, mixing modern standards of super-insulation with vernacular farmhouse architecture ultimately led to the creation of a very special home for proprietors Jeanette and Jon Fenwick — one that picked up a coveted UK Passivhaus Award in 2016.

In Vitruvius's 1st century BC encyclopedia of architecture, a seminal antecedent to Architectural Graphic Standards, these vernacular skills become the art of building and one finds entire chapters devoted to the profound significance of the sun's movement in relation to the location of rooms, the size of apertures, and thermal masIn Vitruvius's 1st century BC encyclopedia of architecture, a seminal antecedent to Architectural Graphic Standards, these vernacular skills become the art of building and one finds entire chapters devoted to the profound significance of the sun's movement in relation to the location of rooms, the size of apertures, and thermal masin relation to the location of rooms, the size of apertures, and thermal mass.

The foundations of modern Scandinavian design are seen in the vernacular architecture of the region.