Figuration in Contemporary Design - A + D Series
Figuration in Contemporary Design - A + D Series
$16.95
Rosa, Joseph
Pap. New Haven, 2008
Book ID: 76662
This handsome book explores the recent use of figurative characteristics in the design arts. Through digital literacy and enhanced fabrication techniques, this avant-garde movement has reintroduced hybrids of methods and ideologies that were once considered too ornamental in character or too handcrafted for the 20th-century minimalist design lexicon. Both large urban-scale architecture and the small domestic realm of design are employing this avant-garde vocabulary formally and figuratively in the terms of shapes and surfaces that evoke trees, tornadoes, parasols, photography, death, illness, food, music, and sensuality. Features Aranda / Lasch, Blaisse, Boontje, FOA, UN Studio, 2 x 4, Kuth / Ranieri, and many more.
112 pp., 75 color illus.
