Form, Function and Design

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FORM, FUNCTION & DESIGN Paul Jacques Grillo What is good design? Is it copied out of a book of rules written at some time in the past? Is it evolved out of a series of platitudes expressed in messianic fashion by a modern? Or is it something that can emerge from the interrelations of a series of factors that can be understood by the student and practitioner? Internationally known French architect Paul Jacques Grillo offers one of the finest modern analyses of this eternally recurrent problem, an analysis that is remarkable not only for its depth of comprehension, but for its empathetic freedom and its rich imagination. His provocative exposition works brilliantly through a series of variables, such as forms, materials, climatic purposes, orientations, proportions, various practical functions, human proportions, energy, mass, motion, and ideal factors. During his exposition M. Grillo covers with great insight such perpetually fascinating topics as curves of life, logarithmic spirals,... Tovább

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FORM, FUNCTION & DESIGN Paul Jacques Grillo What is good design? Is it copied out of a book of rules written at some time in the past? Is it evolved out of a series of platitudes expressed in messianic fashion by a modern? Or is it something that can emerge from the interrelations of a series of factors that can be understood by the student and practitioner? Internationally known French architect Paul Jacques Grillo offers one of the finest modern analyses of this eternally recurrent problem, an analysis that is remarkable not only for its depth of comprehension, but for its empathetic freedom and its rich imagination. His provocative exposition works brilliantly through a series of variables, such as forms, materials, climatic purposes, orientations, proportions, various practical functions, human proportions, energy, mass, motion, and ideal factors. During his exposition M. Grillo covers with great insight such perpetually fascinating topics as curves of life, logarithmic spirals, "natural" curves in art, interrelation of texture and materials, integration with landscape, surface decoration, various classical geometric approaches, psychological aspects of structure, city planning and similar ideas. While most of his exposition is architectural, in the largest sense, his ideas are broad and penetrating enough to be effective in almost any of the visual or constructional arts. Among the unusual features in M. Grillo's book, which lift it high above similarly purposed books by architects, are his clarity of expression, his breadth of appreciation, and especially his wealth of illustration, both verbal and pictorial. In all probability, never has a book in aesthetics been so fittingly or so imaginatively illustrated. Unabridged republication of What Is Design? (1960). 422 illustrations. 238pp. 814 x 11. 20182-1 Paper bound » A DOVER EDITION DESIGNED FOR YEARS OF USE! We have made every effort to make this the best book possible. Our paper is opaque, with minimal show-through; it will not discolor or become brittle with age. Pages are sewn in signatures, in the method traditionally used for the best books, and will not drop out, as often happens with paperbacks held together with glue. Books open flat for easy reference. The binding will not crack or split. This is a permanent book. Vissza