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Author : Milton Stricker
Release : 2017-06-20
Genre : Architectural design
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 074/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Design Through Abstraction by : Milton Stricker
Download or read book Design Through Abstraction written by Milton Stricker. This book was released on 2017-06-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only presentation not only of the basic elements of architectural design, but also understanding organic architectural principles and practice.
Author : Nathan Cabot Hale
Release : 2012-06-19
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 302/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Abstraction in Art and Nature by : Nathan Cabot Hale
Download or read book Abstraction in Art and Nature written by Nathan Cabot Hale. This book was released on 2012-06-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stimulating, thought-provoking guide, a noted sculptor and teacher demonstrates how to discover a rich new design source in the abstractions inherent in natural forms. Through systematic study of such properties as line, form, shape, mass, pattern, light and dark, space, proportion, scale, perspective, and color as they appear in nature, students can learn to utilize the infinite variety and diversity of those elements as a wellspring of creative abstraction. The author invites students to learn the necessary techniques through a series of projects devoted to exploring and drawing plants, animals, birds, landscapes, seascapes, skies, and more. Lines of growth and structure, water and liquid forms, weather and atmospheric patterns, luminosity in plants and animals, earth colors and lightning are among the sources of abstraction available to the artist who is aware of them. This book will train you to see and use these elements and many more. An intriguing blend of art, psychology, and the natural sciences, Abstraction in Art and Nature is profusely illustrated with over 370 photographs, scientific illustrations, diagrams, and reproductions of works by the great masters. It not only offers a mind-stretching new way of learning and teaching basic design, but deepens our awareness of the natural environment. In short, Mr. Hale's book is an indispensable guide that artists, teachers, and students will want to have close at hand for instruction, inspiration, and practical guidance.
Author : Pier Vittorio Aureli
Release : 2011-02-11
Genre : Architecture
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 792/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture by : Pier Vittorio Aureli
Download or read book The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture written by Pier Vittorio Aureli. This book was released on 2011-02-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architectural form reconsidered in light of a unitary conception of architecture and the city. In The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Pier Vittorio Aureli proposes that a sharpened formal consciousness in architecture is a precondition for political, cultural, and social engagement with the city. Aureli uses the term absolute not in the conventional sense of “pure,” but to denote something that is resolutely itself after being separated from its other. In the pursuit of the possibility of an absolute architecture, the other is the space of the city, its extensive organization, and its government. Politics is agonism through separation and confrontation; the very condition of architectural form is to separate and be separated. Through its act of separation and being separated, architecture reveals at once the essence of the city and the essence of itself as political form: the city as the composition of (separate) parts. Aureli revisits the work of four architects whose projects were advanced through the making of architectural form but whose concern was the city at large: Andrea Palladio, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Étienne Louis-Boullée, and Oswald Mathias Ungers. The work of these architects, Aureli argues, addressed the transformations of the modern city and its urban implications through the elaboration of specific and strategic architectural forms. Their projects for the city do not take the form of an overall plan but are expressed as an “archipelago” of site-specific interventions.
Author : Barbara Liskov
Release : 2001
Genre : Computers
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Program Development in Java by : Barbara Liskov
Download or read book Program Development in Java written by Barbara Liskov. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liskov (engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Guttag (computer science and engineering, also at MIT) present a component- based methodology for software program development. The book focuses on modular program construction: how to get the modules right and how to organize a program as a collection of modules. It explains the key types of abstractions, demonstrates how to develop specifications that define these abstractions, and illustrates how to implement them using numerous examples. An introduction to key Java concepts is included. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author : John Ousterhout
Release : 2018-04-10
Genre :
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Book Rating : 200/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Philosophy of Software Design by : John Ousterhout
Download or read book A Philosophy of Software Design written by John Ousterhout. This book was released on 2018-04-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
