Sentences with phrase «vernacular building»

All three communities are an architectural response to the early maritime villages of Nantucket — a merging of distinctive, coastal shingle homes with Floridian vernacular building styles.

Carefully researched and visually engaging, Architecture Without Architects challenged conventional notions of architecture and dwelling through its study of vernacular building technologies and alternative ways of living.

This resulted in many vernacular building styles in different parts of the world.

In collaboration with the SCAD preservation design program, the artist created a site - specific installation made of tabby — a southern, vernacular building material comprised of lime, sand and shells.

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Snelling's sculptures of highly detailed vernacular buildings, streets and rundown neighborhoods show a keen sensitivity to the psychological tensions and hidden narratives of modern life in small - town America.

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.

«These are big, brawny, American vernacular buildings,» said Thompson.

Early vernacular buildings developed using these universal principles, carefully orienting and shading buildings so that they gained heat in winter and were shady in summer, introducing thermal mass in dry climates, and in more humid ones using cross ventilation, porches, shutters, ceiling fans, solar chimneys and insulation.

Not exact matches

Celebrating the vernacular: Certain regions of the country have a distinct tradition of church architecture, and congregations often want to tie their new building to that tradition.

The term «nanotechnology» entered into the public vernacular quite suddenly around the turn of the century, right around the same time that, when announcing the US National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) in 2001 [2000; see the American Association for the Advancement of Science webpage on Historical Trends in Federal R&D, scroll down to the National Nanotechnology Initiative and click on the Jpg or Excel links], President Bill Clinton declared that it would one day build materials stronger than steel, detect cancer at its inception, and store the vast records of the Library of Congress in a device the size of a sugar cube.

A shophouse is a vernacular architectural building type that is commonly seen in areas such as urban Southeast Asia.

A pedagogical objective of this assignment was to increase the interaction among preservice teachers for the purpose of improving the following: (a) their understanding of musical vernacular, genres, and cultures; (b) their appreciation of the relationships among personal, social, and cultural identities; and (c) an introduction to digital learning technologies as a platform for community building.

Both buildings were constructed in the Theosophical vernacular that included the flattened arch motif and whimsical references to antiquity.

Vernacular architecture can be contrasted against polite architecture which is characterized by stylistic elements of design intentionally incorporated for aesthetic purposes which go beyond a building's functional requirements.

The guest house blends in with the Jacobsbaai building vernacular and is luxuriously decorated to make gu...

The designers at Naughty Dog have absorbed the vernacular of film and then built upon it productively, not slavishly, to create something wondrous.

They're vernacular, raw, industrial buildings.

«Vik, 2 Years Old,» a 2014 photograph by Brazilian - American photographer Vik Muniz — This large - scale photograph (approximately 8 by 6 feet), which entered the collection through the High's 2016 Collectors Evening, is from the artist's «Album» series, for which Muniz builds replicas of familiar moments with small pieces of discarded vernacular snapshots pasted together to form scenes.

I am drawn to vernacular architecture, that which is unplanned and that which is built with humble materials.

They're rugged, vernacular, raw, American industrial buildings,» said Thompson.

The vernacular tradition builds what is needed.»

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.

But in the vernacular of the folks who used to live in the South of Market area before the arrival of the Botta building — and the Yerba Buena Gardens and Center for the Arts across Third Street from the museum — the disruption is not good, not nearly creative enough.

Wolfgang Tillmans's new show is a world of differences: bodies and buildings, trays of eggs and vernacular Tunisian houses, pictures of the world and pictures of nothing.

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She builds letters and phrases out of vernacular materials such as cardboard, wood, and cinder blocks, calling attention to the ways language and imagery are constructed.

Evie McKenna takes photographs of vernacular gardens, which explore the interaction of organic elements and the built environment.

The other 2 buildings, utilize existing vernacular structures from the 50s, with the same exteriors from that era.

Using the written word as a foundation for photographs, she constructs images by building letters and phrases out of vernacular materials such as cardboard, wood, and cinder blocks, calling attention to the ways language and imagery are put together.

Painter Damian Stamer depicts barns, abandoned buildings, and other vernacular structures of the rural south.

The exhibition will consider the distinctive architectural design of each site, as well as the hand - made furniture, counters, desks, cabinets, and display systems by Randy Shull Design, built using vernacular and available regional materials, and inspired by the design aesthetic and creative philosophies of Black Mountain College.

Beyond the largely non-objective painting style itself, the constructs he builds change the vernacular of Abstract Expressionism.

The 529 Arts Building is on the north side of 20th st and houses over 20 galleries, each showcasing a diverse representation of art from contemporary African to Vernacular Art and post war contemporary work.

MG As much as your work engages with non-Western traditions, it is also very much rooted in American culture, where there is a long legacy of sculptures built out of found objects — not only in «high art,» but even more so in vernacular expressions, of which your work seems keenly aware.

Highlights from this conceptually minded show, organized by Guggenheim curator Sara Raza, include Kadar Attia's replica of a North African city that he's constructed with couscous, salt and glue to comment on French modernist architect Le Corbusier's appropriation of the region's vernacular style of design and Mariam Ghani's video installation that contrasts two modernist buildings in Afghanistan and Germany: one depicted in a state of ruin while the other is being redeveloped.

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.

Edward Cella Art & Architecture presents Vernacular Environments, Part 1, a group exhibition of works selected from the 1960s through present day that explore the diversity of tensions between built environments, bodies, and narratives.

Norton's project in PAFA's Historic Landmark Building uses paintings in the collection as sounding boards for a group of new works that reflect variously on issues like the historic portrayal of women in art, paternalism and colonialism, and the vernacular forms of folk culture.

By exploring the shapes and variations of local vernacular adobe buildings, a dialogue was facilitated around what looked and felt best.

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.

Newer homes, meanwhile — homes built since the advent of air conditioning — had lost these vernacular design features, and without power to operate air conditioners, those homes generally were not habitable.

These vernacular design features included wrap - around porches that shaded windows from direct solar gain, design for ventilative cooling through window placement and building geometry; tall ceilings to aid in ventilation, and outdoor living spaces for the hot winter evenings.

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 mass.

Aaron Street: Yeah, so the second part of a right people right seats framework is to build out an org chart for your firm, in the EOS vernacular that's an accountability chart, but it's an org chart for your firm that clearly defines the roles of every part of your organization and whose responsibility it is to get that done.

In keeping with its regional focus, brand building efforts have also been localised; rather than advertise nationally, Bajaj Allianz relies more on vernacular dailies and slots on regional television channels.

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