The Designer's Eye
31 July 2002
Description
This imaginative book offers architecture students over a hundred examples of visual problem solving in architectural design.
Photographs of actual buildings, paired with digitally manipulated images in 'before and after' comparisons, demonstrate the sorts of real-life situations that architectural design courses rarely teach students how to address, and show how designers can manipulate form and material to achieve desired effects: emphasizing or diminishing building elements, imposing visual order on a façade, or adding grace notes.
Reviews
"A fine gift for any visually inclined individual ...will open anyone’s eyes to visual tricks in the environment around them." — Metropolis Magazine
"A primer for avoiding unintended results, for opening eyes to the power of simple moves, for letting go of words." — Philip Nobel, Metropolis Magazine