Architectural Thought : The Design Process and and the Expectant Eye
after all only another form of drawing which equally empowers the designer. Arguably virtual reality might give even more creden ...
Whether we are intent on pursuing continuity or innovation, or probably a combination of the two, the past is of relevance. It i ...
books. Vitruvius was nevertheless able to give us a very considerable insight into Roman architecture, much of it how- ever depe ...
contemporary drawings are an uncertain and possibly untrust- worthy guide. What contemporary depictions do most successfully is ...
as buildings. In the etching of the Forum Romanum there is what looks like a hay wagon drawn by oxen and some fenced in livestoc ...
shoeing a horse, several donkeys carrying loads and a group of men with pitchforks. Ambrogio Lorenzetti painting a fresco of the ...
markedly altered the appearance of the room. The whole space became brighter and no longer was it necessary for a family to clus ...
Candles change the appearance of colour. Their place- ment on the table flatters the complexion because of the light’s emphasis ...
polished marbles, granite, ivory, gold and other metallic portions of the edifice, were all protected by a coating of transparen ...
colour washed? Even small areas of colour, however, would hardly conform to our accepted view of what characterises a Greek temp ...
truthful, representation of the past. Perhaps this does not mat- ter and is, in any case, a misguided effort. The past is not he ...
We accept – not necessarily always consciously – that etchings, photographs, models, film or electronic simulations do not conve ...
move in order to keep the object of interest at the centre of the retina. The problem is, paradoxically, that the photographic r ...
113 Below Henry Parker, Student measuring the Temple of Castor & Pollux in Rome; watercolour made to illus- trate the Corint ...
The period when travel had a very direct effect on design was in the heyday of the Grand Tour, that mainly 17th and 18th century ...
Photography has, of course, had a huge influence in the 20th century and was associated with travel; first through black and whi ...
There is also a simple and unavoidable reason why the photograph or any other two-dimensional representation is unable to replic ...
Books’ were can perhaps be judged by the fact that Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) – president and architect – travelled to Italy t ...
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We travel not only to see the Parthenon but also the white- washed clusters of houses on the Aegean islands. We admire both but ...
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