Design & Intuition: Structures, Interiors and the Mind - Hardcover

C. L. Kausel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 184564574X ISBN 13: 9781845645748

Publisher: WIT Press, 2011

Synopsis

Scholarship has sought to explain design primarily as developments and trends by understanding the influential ideas of a period. These processes are resourceful to the analysis, however they don't explain why people become attached to design and cultivate it in time. For this purpose we must also gain understanding of collective cognitive processes and the meaning of design to people. The study traces the development of respective design observed first in ancient structures, and then in interiors and artefacts that are associated to architecture by design. Design form migrates usually from technology to material culture (i.e. from buildings to interiors and crafts), though this direction is not fixed in creativity. Sometimes this pattern is not followed, and arches, pilasters, tower crenellations and pediments appear in historic costume. Technology holds implications for visual culture, thus this study also looks at the inspiration in mechanical instruments observed in XXI century design. As the book unfolds a cultural phenomenon emerges. Architectural evocations in other crafts reflect that the public has its own dialogue with design. The attachments and responses of the public to design are many times a phenomenon worthy of being analyzed. The book gives out interesting findings about the mind and how it transforms design. It also exemplifies a new methodology for the observation of collective responses to design.

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About the Author

Cecilia Lewis Kausel is a professor of Interior Design at Mount Ida College, where she teaches courses on Architectural History, Studio Renovation and Reuse, Theory & Criticism, and Building Construction. An IDEC member and AIA associate and the author or editor of over twenty publications, as a result of a 1995 studio she taught on the1920's Bauhaus' model house she won a Guest Professorship in architectural theory and built form at the Bauhaus School of Architecture of Weimar. Since 1983 Professor Lewis Kausel has participated in IFRAA, the religious art and architecture chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). In 1994 she was nominated to the national IFRAA Board, and from 1996 to 2002 held Advisory leadership posts in AIA Washington DC. She created professional workshops and was active in the Editorial Committee of the Journal of IFRAA. In 2000, she hosted the national IFRAA conference Images of Paradise, jointly with Andover Newton Theological School. In December 1998 Prof. Lewis Kausel was invited to put in book form the lectures of Santiago Calatrava. The book, Santiago Calatrava: Conversations with Students, a joint venture of the Departments of Architecture and Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2002.

Edition details

• Publisher: WIT Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184564574X
• ISBN 13: 9781845645748
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 276