Basics – Architecture and Dynamics
Preface to the book by Otto Kapfinger: The Poetics of Architecture
Basics – the phenomena of form
The effect of architectural and artistic forms is based on the phenomena of the basic elements: point, line and plane. Architectural space is defined by its boundaries, where each element is evaluated by its inherent energies.
As architecture is also the organization of space, these elements are described in terms of their influence on each other and on their surroundings. In an attempt to understand these elements in terms of architecture, this book examines them based on the research of Bauhaus member Wassily Kandinsky.
Through the inherent qualities of these elements we can understand the effect of energies, tensions, and dynamics in all existing objects, buildings and landscapes as the organization of movement and stillness.
This book contains an abundance of diagrams and examples especially selected to describe these elements and their architectural manifestations and to show the manifold ways in which they communicate with us. In Basics the borders between architecture and art disappear making them accessible to everyone interested in these fields.
Basics – Architektonische Grundelemente und ihre Dynamik
Diese und viele anderen Fragen beantwortet "Basics". In direkter Gegenüberstellung von Text und Bildern internationaler Bauten wird die Bedeutung und Wirkung architektonischer Grundelemente – ausgehend von Wassily Kandinskys auf die bildende Kunst bezogene Analyse "Punkt und Linie zu Fläche" – einzeln und in Kompositionen untersucht.
Übertragen auf natürliche und gebaute Objekte basiert die Wirkung dieser Elemente nicht in erster Linie auf der äußeren Erscheinungsform, sondern auf der den Formen "innewohnenden Spannung".
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Englische Ausgabe
ISBN 978-3-7091-0323-4, Springer, 2011
Englisch Issue
ISBN 978-3-7091-0323-4, Springer, 2011
Deutsche Version
ISBN 978-3-2118-3800-6, Springer, 2005
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