Interdisciplinary Architecture - Hardcover

Trasi, Nicoletta; Narici, Giovanni

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471498076 ISBN 13: 9780471498070

Publisher: Academy Editions Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

Takes a holistic view of the design of our environment, covering historical precedents, contemporary developments, and possible future trends.
* Comprehensively illustrated with many lavish photographs, as well as plans and drawings.
* Material draws information from cutting-edge articles and ideas.

About this title

About the Author

NICOLETTA TRASI was born in Rome, Italy in 1963, and graduated in Architecture at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza' where she obtained a PhD in Architectural Composition (Theories of Architecture). Since 1990 she has been involved in research activities in France, obtaining the CEAA specialisation (Certificat d'É tudes Approfondies en Architecture) in Theories of Architecture, and a DEA (Diplô me d'É tudes Approfondies) at the Sorbonne University in Paris where she has undertaken studies for a PhD in the History of Contemporary Art. She is now a lecturer at the faculty of Architecture in Rome and collaborates with the University of Pescara, whilst continuing in architectural practice. The author of numerous articles and essays, her most recent publication (in collaboration with Paola Misino) is André Wogenscky, Raisons profondes de la forme published by Le Moniteur.

From the Inside Flap

In order to maintain the highest level of progression in design, interdisciplinary co-operation between art and architecture is of key importance. This volume explores a selection of the collaborations that have achieved the greatest success, through presenting extracts from issues of the influential journal Architectural Design.

At the most basic level, art might be consdiered as work without function, and architecture may be seen to respond more to necessity. However, contemporary art - in its most vital, demonstrative and extreme aspects - explores new relationships with 'place' that follow design processes similar to those of architecture. Art and architecture evolve within the same field of inquiry: the essential issue of space

Interdisciplinary Architecture presents both historicial background on the complex relationship between art and architecture, and examples of related contemporary projects. In an introductory essay, Nicoletta Trasi gives an overview discussing the recurring issue of the integration of the arts, from Art Nouveau to De Stijl and Bauhaus, highlighting the insidious and uneven ground on which the art-architecture relationship has evolved. A concluding paragraph speculates on future developments. The essay is followed by the selected Architectural Design articles. Those from Frontiers: Artists and Architects (July/August 1997) investigate the dynamic relationship between art and architecture: those from Pop Architecture (July/August 1992) and Colour in Architecture (March/April 1996) discuss the formal definition of elements common to the vocabulary of artist and architect, such as the use of colour and the conception of sculptural forms: and those from Tracing Architecture (March/April 1998) examine the creative act of artists and architects.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academy Editions Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471498076
• ISBN 13: 9780471498070
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224