The Function of Form

Author: Farshid Moussavi
Publisher: Actar
ISBN: 9781940291888
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 520

Book Description
Comprehensively compiles a set of material systems, analyzing ways in which they can be tessellated to produce novel forms.

Form, Function, and Design

Author: Paul Jacques Grillo
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN:
Category : Architectural design
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
A renowned French architect provides an analysis of the sources, elements, and significance of design. Bibliogs.

Type Form & Function

Author: Jason Tselentis
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
ISBN: 1610580303
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
Type, Form, and Function is a useful, comprehensive typography resource that both students and professional designers should have in their library. It looks at the influences of modern typography and symbols going back through time and examines certain type treatments and movements in design and logo types. It focuses on how type works and emphasizes typographic fundamentals, while touching on logo/logotype design and page layout (print and interactive). This book promises to guide designers through the visual typographic clutter to make their designed messages more meaningful.

Skeletal Function and Form

Author: Dennis R. Carter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521714754
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
The intimate relationship between form and function inherent in the design of animals is perhaps nowhere more evident than in the musculoskeletal system. In the bones, cartilage, tendons, ligaments, and muscles of all vertebrates there is a graceful and efficient physical order. This book is about how function determines form. It addresses the role of mechanical factors in the development, adaptation, maintenance, ageing and repair of skeletal tissues. The authors refer to this process as mechanobiology and develop their theme within an evolutionary framework. They show how the normal development of skeletal tissues is influenced by mechanical stimulation beginning in the embryo and continuing throughout life into old age. They also show how degenerative disorders such as arthritis and osteoporosis are regulated by the same mechanical processes that influence development and growth. Skeletal Function and Form bridges important gaps among disciplines, providing a common ground for understanding, and will appeal to a wide audience of bioengineers, zoologists, anthropologists, palaeontologists and orthopaedists.

The Contradiction Between Form and Function in Architecture

Author: John Shannon Hendrix
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135093466
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 229

Book Description
Continuing the themes that have been addressed in The Humanities in Architectural Design and The Cultural Role of Architecture, this book illustrates the important role that a contradiction between form and function plays in compositional strategies in architecture. The contradiction between form and function is seen as a device for poetic expression, for the expression of ideas, in architecture. Here the role of the terms "form" and "function" are analyzed throughout the history of architecture and architectural theory, from Vitruvius to the present, with particular emphasis on twentieth-century functionalism. Historical examples are given from Ancient, Classical, Islamic, Christian, Byzantine, Gothic, Renaissance, Mannerist, and Neoclassical architecture, and from movements in the twentieth century to the present. In addition philosophical issues such as lineamenti, Vorstellung, différance, dream construction, deep structure and surface structure, topology theory, self-generation, and immanence are explored in relation to the compositions and writings of architects throughout history. This book contributes to the project of re-establishing architecture as a humanistic discipline, to re-establish an emphasis on the expression of ideas, and on the ethical role of architecture to engage the intellect of the observer and to represent human identity.

Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings

Author: Louis H. Sullivan
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486238128
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
A reprint of the definitive 1918 edition, this bold, thought-provoking volume by one of America's most influential architects features dialogs, or "chats," about architecture, art, education, and life in general. 17 illustrations.

The Function of Ornament

Author: Farshid Moussavi
Publisher: Actarbirkhauser
ISBN: 9781940291697
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
A graphic guide to ornaments of 20th century building envelopes.

Human Form & Function

Author: Pamela Mary Minett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781873600108
Category : Human biology
Languages : en
Pages : 46

Book Description

Feathers, Form & Function

Author: Chris Maynard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940984230
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
An exposition on feathers- their form, function, varieties, and physiology, accompanied by the author's stunning artwork made from feathers.

Form and Function

Author: E. S. Russell
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269

Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Form and Function" (A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology) by E. S. Russell. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.