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| AUTHORS: C. LEWIS KAUSEL, Mount Ida College, USA SUBJECT: Design & Nature ISBN: 978-1-84564-574-8 PAGES: 276 | |
DESCRIPTION: Design and Intuition: Structures, Interiors and the Mind unravels veiled relationships observed by the author which are present in some important architecture and crafts. These designs are thoroughly analyzed in the book, and the author explains them with the help of illustrations and discussion.
As the book unfolds a cultural phenomenon emerges. Architectural evocations in other crafts reflect that the public has its own dialogue with design. The attachments and responses of the public to design are many times a phenomenon worthy of being analyzed. The book gives out interesting findings about the mind and how it transforms design.
This book is a gateway to understanding the transformations that result from the interplay between design and culture. It will interest designers, researchers and insightful lay readers who appreciate unforgettable design. | |
CONTENTS: | |
PART I: INTRODUCTORY ESSENTIALS
1. Introduction
Foreword to Part I
The Endurance of Design Against the Odds
2. The Life of Culture in Design
PART II: ANCIENT DESIGN: IMPLEMENTS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE MIND
Foreword to Part II: Ingenuity, Intuition and Myth
3. Expertise to Impression
4. The Pantheon’s Intuitive Iconography
5. The Emulation of a Model: The Creation of an Architectural Motif
6. Supports: A Medium that the Mind Transforms and Shrouds in Mystery
7. The Intuitive Concave Forms
PART III: THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE HUMAN OUTLINE
Foreword to Part III
8. Cognitive Culture and the Ornamental Application of Structures
9. The Mind’s Authority in Design
10. Vaults and Trefoils | PART IV: REPRESENTATION
Foreword to Part IV: Function and Image
11. The Import of Representation
12. Ornamental Architectural Images in Exterior and Interior Applications
13. Structural Ornament in Furniture and Crafts
14. The Place of Architectural Motifs in the Issue of Coating
15. The Suggestion of Precious Materials
PART V: DESIGN ISSUES OF TODAY AND YESTERDAY
Foreword to Part V: Why Culture Decorates
16. The Authority of an Ancient Structure
17. The Public’s Protectionist Attitudes
18. Invention, Inspiration and Biomorphic Design
19. The Illusory Dimension of Categories
20. Objective Study of Form
PART VI: DISCUSSIONS AND CONCLUSIONS
Foreword to Part VI: Longings, Creativity and Fulfillment
21. The Sway of Possibility
22. Summary: Interpretation and Illusion | |
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES: C. Lewis Kausel is a professor of Interior Design at Mount Ida College, where she teaches courses on Architectural History, Studio Renovation and Reuse, Theory & Criticism, and Building Construction. An IDEC member and AIA associate and the author or editor of over twenty publications, as a result of a 1995 studio she taught on the1920's Bauhaus’ model house she won a Guest Professorship in architectural theory and built form at the Bauhaus School of Architecture of Weimar.
Since 1983 Professor Lewis Kausel has participated in IFRAA, the religious art and architecture chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). In 1994 she was nominated to the national IFRAA Board, and from 1996 to 2002 held Advisory leadership posts in AIA Washington DC. She created professional workshops and was active in the Editorial Committee of the Journal of IFRAA. In 2000, she hosted the national IFRAA conference Images of Paradise, jointly with Andover Newton Theological School.
In December 1998 Prof. Lewis Kausel was invited to put in book form the lectures of Santiago Calatrava. The book, Santiago Calatrava: Conversations with Students, a joint venture of the Departments of Architecture and Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2002. | |
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