Sempering: Process & Pattern in Architecture & Design - Couverture souple

 
9788836634392: Sempering: Process & Pattern in Architecture & Design
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 8836634397 ISBN 13 : 9788836634392
Editeur : Silvana, 2016

Synopsis

Well-designed architecture and objects always showa meaningful resonance between means and ends. Their generating process is not a neutral vehicle that leads from the idea to the result, but rather a meeting of form and material which may take the mode of a free experiment or confirm well-tested crafting practices.
Within a varied contemporary panorama, the exhibition displays a selection of "design events" of different kinds and of different scales, organised into eight possible actions; eight metamorphoses capable of transforming materials or components into "artefacts", into active elements of our daily lives and culture. The four categories formulated a hundred and fifty years ago by Gottfried Semper, and doubled in number to bringthem up to date with contemporary conditions, are used as a grid to organise the complex structure of the artificial environment; and as the instrument for a possible revision of the axioms and methods of "modern design", in its constant attempt to adapt them to the problems and aspirations of a complex world. Sempering looks at architecture, landscapes and objects of the last decade crossing the established boundaries of every possible system of the arts, of every division in skills and sectors. Actions such as stacking heavy blocks, connecting light structures, moulding soft materials, engraving fine casing, folding tin sheets, weaving threads, arranging tiles or blowing air can be seen as basic actions capable of inventing unexpected forms by the use of new technologies, but also as the testing of wellestablished "customs" or formal traditions in their response to new conditions.

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À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Well-designed architecture and objects always showa meaningful resonance between means and ends. Their generating process is not a neutral vehicle that leads from the idea to the result, but rather a meeting of form and material which may take the mode of a free experiment or confirm well-tested crafting practices.
Within a varied contemporary panorama, the exhibition displays a selection of "design events" of different kinds and of different scales, organised into eight possible actions; eight metamorphoses capable of transforming materials or components into "artefacts", into active elements of our daily lives and culture. The four categories formulated a hundred and fifty years ago by Gottfried Semper, and doubled in number to bringthem up to date with contemporary conditions, are used as a grid to organise the complex structure of the artificial environment; and as the instrument for a possible revision of the axioms and methods of "modern design", in its constant attempt to adapt them to the problems and aspirations of a complex world. Sempering looks at architecture, landscapes and objects of the last decade crossing the established boundaries of every possible system of the arts, of every division in skills and sectors. Actions such as stacking heavy blocks, connecting light structures, moulding soft materials, engraving fine casing, folding tin sheets, weaving threads, arranging tiles or blowing air can be seen as basic actions capable of inventing unexpected forms by the use of new technologies, but also as the testing of wellestablished "customs" or formal traditions in their response to new conditions.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Silvana
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
8836634397
ISBN 13 
9788836634392
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
Éditeur
Collina Luisa
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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