Sentences with phrase «vernacular design»

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.

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.

Highlights during 2014 include a spotlight on Jane Drew (1911 — 1996), a British architect and educator whose pioneering work signalled a major shift from universal modernism to responsive and vernacular design; a selected exhibition of Artists» scrapbooks; a spotlight on Polish experimental artist and film maker Walerian Borowczyk (1923 — 2006); and a Reading Room «take - over» during the Autumn by artist Julie Verhoeven.

Recent research into vernacular design turned up this image of one particular archetype about to be put to use.

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Ways of speaking reflect the aesthetic and communicative values of both a particular congregation's culture and tradition; our language for worship is designed to link the vernacular with the formal.

The best moments of The Return of the King are those where Jackson's mad imagination runs riot: an Uruk - hai captain that looks like Charles Laughton's hunchback; a battlefield amuck with war elephants («mumaks» in the vernacular) that recalls the desperation of the Hoth sequence of The Empire Strikes Back (itself a landmark of special effects for its time); and a glimpse at some of the ornaments of spider Shelob's lair and various orcan armor that pings off Robert A. Burns's delirious set design for Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

Though the DB11, introduced in 2016, was kissed with a touch of contemporary design language in the form of aerodynamic curlicues and a subtly pointed tail, it also kept a foot planted in the grand touring vernacular intended to satisfy the tweedy old world set.

-LSB-...] submitting the cover for Maiden Flight to The Book Designer «s e-book cover design awards for September, I have learned that they are just a bit pish (to use the vernacular).

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.

This exquisite turnkey three - bedroom residence combines traditional Maine summer cottage vernacular with modern architectural design, creating a one - of - a-kind four - season home overlooking Eggemoggin Reach.

The Boathouse is a rural contemporary vernacular architecture replete with nautical design themes, with upper and lower decks overhanging the lake.

As such, «Logos from Japan» presents a contemporary study of logo design from this country that is vivid and varied in its vernacular.

Concerned with questions of craftsmanship, modernity, design and the vernacular, Portuguese artist Leonor Antunes is joined by art historian Briony Fer to discuss her work, on the occasion of her new commission the frisson of the togetherness.

A picture such as «Grind» playfully echoes the edge - conscious»60s abstractions of Frank Stella and Jo Baer while evoking the vernacular tradition of sign painting and the cross-fertilization of painting and graphic design that culminated in Pop art.

Its specific constellation of reference includes everything from vernacular or anonymous urban architectural elements, product display design, and the accidental cumulative aesthetics of, say, the garage, as well as an elaborate, on - going discourse regarding the sculpture and its pedestal that goes back to Brancusi.

Mies's model, as depicted in a series of photographs he took in 1922, is a transparent monolith that towers above a swarm of vernacular housing he designed to appear horrifying and decrepit.

2.10 pm Tanya Harrod responds to the current CAS display by looking back to the confident taxonomies of the last century and considering the terms craft, art, design, vernacular, folk and the value they carry.

The hand - painted ornamental design of Lin's «Untitled (Clockwise)» installation is appropriated from a bed sheet and draws on vernacular visual elements in his work.

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 Codesign 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 CoDesign, built using vernacular and available regional materials, and inspired by the design aesthetic and creative philosophies of Black Mountain Codesign aesthetic and creative philosophies of Black Mountain College.

Whether authored designs (such as 101 Spring Street, which was completed by architect Nicholas Whyte in 1870) or vernacular structures (such as the

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.

Drawing on craft techniques like embroidery and the vernacular of interior design, David exploits the functional potential of these practices in an attempt to organize and structure the chaotic nature of his emotional response to reality.

Composed on raw linen, the quick - witted drawings and hand - rendered texts are typically deadpan in their humour, while the bold leafy pattern and graphic elements recall the vernacular of Los Angeles and Southern California design.

Martine Syms's expansive, multi-disciplinary practice, which includes film, essay, graphic design, web design, and publishing, explores representations of blackness and its relationship to narrative, black vernacular, feminist movements, and radical traditions.

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.

With such a range of enjoyably gaudy works, it poses the question whether the exhibition design, in its elegant economy of means, might too have spoken the vernacular language of the works it displays.

As part of Tribeca Design District's programming, this exhibition by the design collective presents new work by 17 independent American designers (Allied Maker, Phaedo, and Flat Vernacular, among them), who channel harmony and discord through spatial, acoustic, and experiential dDesign District's programming, this exhibition by the design collective presents new work by 17 independent American designers (Allied Maker, Phaedo, and Flat Vernacular, among them), who channel harmony and discord through spatial, acoustic, and experiential ddesign collective presents new work by 17 independent American designers (Allied Maker, Phaedo, and Flat Vernacular, among them), who channel harmony and discord through spatial, acoustic, and experiential designdesign.

The everyday surfaces that surround us provide the canvas onto which the artist transposes elements from the vernacular of traditional urban design.

All the signs are designed in a current - day graphic design vernacular, so it's quite jarring to see names like «John Quincy Adams» appear on a lawn sign.

All three chairs have been co-opted by high - end manufacturers and assimilated into an elite design vernacular.

Recognized throughout his career with honors and awards, Blackwell received a 2012 AIA National Honor Award and the 2012 Architecture Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for a unique use of design strategies that draw upon vernaculars and contradictions of place to transgress conventional boundaries for architecture.

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.

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.

Commissions include Pennsylvania Convention Center Public Arts Projects, Philadelphia; large - scale site - specific sculpture, GTE Corporation, Irving, Texas; installation: vernacular abstraction, Wacoal, Tokyo, Japan; and set design, Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Our designs may take cues from vernacular styles, but they are uniquely adapted to the site and our client's aesthetic tastes.

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.

It can be modern, historical, vernacular, high or low — any design style.

Through the push and pull of cross cultural collaboration the group has balanced traditional cultural practice in the Caribbean and forward - looking design solutions; developing new methods and new vernacular that respects and elevates local traditions.

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

The exterior of the Mobile Bread - House borrows from the design vernacular of the B - Home.

Agile, production environments and user - centric design are all part of my daily vernacular.

As two properties on the market in Wilson illustrate — clean lines and bold material choices are increasingly becoming the vernacular of architects and homeowners seeking to provide a contrasting and modern take on the mountain home through contemporary design

Ikat is a pattern that has entered the design vernacular a few years back and has firmly lodged itself in the style world.