Signs, Symbols, and Architecture
Author : Geoffrey Broadbent
Publisher : Chichester, [Eng.] ; New York : Wiley
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Geoffrey Broadbent
Publisher : Chichester, [Eng.] ; New York : Wiley
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Geoffrey Broadbent
Publisher : Chichester, [Eng.] ; New York : Wiley
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Robert Venturi
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 27,74 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
The observer-designer-theorists who analyzed the Las Vegas strip as an archetype in "Learning from Las Vegas" now turn their iconoclastic vision onto their own remarkable partnership and the rule-breaking architecture it has spawned for this fascinating retrospective of their life work.
Author : Martin Treu
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 40,24 MB
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 142140494X
Treu tackles the architectural history and signage of Main Street and the strip—from painted boards nailed over crude storefronts to sleek cinemas topped with neon glitz. Honorable Mention, Architecture and Urban Planning, 2012 PROSE Awards Signs, Streets, and Storefronts addresses more than 200 years of signs and place-marking along America’s commercial corridors. From small-town squares to Broadway, State Street, and Wilshire Boulevard, Martin Treu follows design developments into the present and explores issues of historic preservation. Treu considers “common” architecture and its place-defining business signs as well as influential high-style design examples by taste-making leaders. Combining advertising and architectural history, the book presents a full picture of the commercial landscape, including design adaptations made for motorists and the migration from Main Street to suburbia. The dynamic between individual businesses and the common good has a major effect on the appearance of our country's Main Streets. Several forces are at work: technological advances, design imagination and the media, corporate propaganda, customer needs, and municipal mandates. Present-day controls have often led to a denuding of traditional commercial corridors. Such reform, Treu argues, has suppressed originality and radically cleared away years of accumulated history based on the taste of a single generation. A must-read for city planners, town councils, architects, sign designers, concerned citizens, and anyone who cares about the appearance and vitality of America’s commercial streets, this heavily illustrated book is equally appealing to armchair historians, small-town enthusiasts, and lovers of Americana.
Author : Richard Poulin
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 38,60 MB
Release : 2012-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1592537790
This innovative volume is the first to provide the design student, practitioner, and educator with an invaluable comprehensive reference of visual and narrative material that illustrates and evaluates the unique and important history surrounding graphic design and architecture. Graphic Design and Architecture, A 20th Century History closely examines the relationship between typography, image, symbolism, and the built environment by exploring principal themes, major technological developments, important manufacturers, and pioneering designers over the last 100 years. It is a complete resource that belongs on every designer’s bookshelf.
Author : Adrian Frutiger
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 36,44 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Discusses the elements of a sign, and looks at pictograms, alphabets, calligraphy, monograms, text type, numerical signs, symbols, and trademarks.
Author : Clare Gibson
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 11,94 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Signs and symbols
ISBN : 9780760702178
This wide-ranging compendium traces symbolism to its ancient roots, examining a vast variety of symbolic images.
Author : D.R. McElroy
Publisher : Wellfleet Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 28,39 MB
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1577151860
This informative and engaging illustrated reference provides the stories behind 1,001 signs and symbols, from ancient hieroglyphs to modern-day political and subculture symbols. What in the world does Ω mean? And what about its meaning might have led my coffee date to tattoo it on his entire forearm? Where did the symbol ∞ originate, and what was its first meaning? How did the ampersand symbol & come about and how was it applied daily in book publishing? And what is the full story behind that staring eye on top of the pyramid on our American dollar bill? This comprehensive guide to signs and symbols explains. Find within: More than 1,000 illustrations An extensive collection of written and cultural symbols, including animals, instruments, stones, shapes, numbers, colors, plants, food, parts of the body, religious and astrological symbols, emojis, and gestures Historical facts culled from a wide variety of sources Learn all about the signs and symbols that surround us and their part in our rich world history.
Author : Michael Ruzicki
Publisher : LiturgyTrainingPublications
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 26,30 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1616714379
This resource helps you prepare a reverent, artful, and interactive experience of the symbols of the liturgy followed by reflection on their meaning for groups of adults or teens.
Author : Alessandro Bianchi
Publisher : Mimesis
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 34,72 MB
Release : 2019-12-05T00:00:00+01:00
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8869772942
From architecture to landscape, the step was not short, like the jumping in scale in the perspective perception of spaces. For architecture, the view stopped against a wall, to then enter and capture the space through the category of the Alberti concinnitas. This book contains articles developed for conferences and magazine papers, written over the last fi ve years, and reconstructs a theoretical and design path of the author and his students at the Politecnico di Milano. Landscape representations of the students are presented, the result of a mixed path between personal perception and visualization techniques, including manual drawing, photography, video and photo retouching. The search for new paths can lead to the desperate exaltation of the expressive characters of each of us (perhaps meaningless) or to the laying of new cornerstones of the representation of the future: we need to go beyond the modern to be a frontier, we need to be avant-garde to recognize in a new sign a symbol of our contemporaneity.