Pattern : : Ornament, Structure, and Behavior / / ed. by Andrea Gleiniger, Georg Vrachliotis.

As models and paradigms, patterns have been helping to orient architects since the Middle Ages. But patterns are also the basis of the history of ornament, an aesthetic phenomenon that links all times and cultures at a fundamental level. Ornament – and hence pattern as well – was abolished by the av...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Architecture, Design and Arts 2000 - 2014
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Place / Publishing House:Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (108 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Inhalt
  • EDITORIAL
  • NEW PATTERNS? OLD PATTERNS? – ON THE EMOTIONAL APPEAL OF ORNAMENT
  • “AND IT WAS OUT OF THAT THAT I BEGAN DREAMING ABOUT PATTERNS...” ON THINKING IN STRUCTURES, DESIGNING WITH PATTERNS, AND THE DESIRE FOR BEAUTY AND MEANING IN ARCHITECTURE
  • ARCHITECTURAL ALGORITHMS AND THE RENAISSANCE OF THE DESIGN PATTERN
  • WAYFINDING STRATEGIES AND BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS IN BUILT SPACES
  • PATTERNS IN THE BRAIN NEUROSCIENTIFIC NOTES ON THE PATTERN CONCEPT
  • REGULAR IRREGULAR – ON THE FLEETING QUALITY OF PATTERN IN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
  • SELECTED LITERATURE
  • ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
  • BIOGRAPHIES