Surfaces : Visual Research for Artists, Architects and Designers. This item is unavailable.Surfaces : Visual Research for Artists, Architects and Designers

Every scenic artist and designer deals with the relationship of form and function - turning ideas and concepts into something solid, whether the medium is plaster, wood, steel or paper. Central to such work is the compilation of photographs of different materials that can be used for future reference. This book is a comprehensive collection of photographs with chapters on each material. It covers hundreds of varieties of wood, stone, marble, brick, plaster, glass, metal and tile look in exterior and interior settings. The pictures are of two varieties, either for the purpose of identifying a surface, or depicting materials in different settings, showing how they can be used architecturally, what their visual effect is, and how they weather. Tailored to research needs in scope and focus, the images offer models and scanning materials for everyone working in this field, and advice is offered in the form of interviews with professionals in the fields of design and architecture, who describe how they gather and use visual research in their work.

JUDY A. JURACEK works as a scenic artist in New York City. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, she worked in the Design and Production Faculty at the North Carolina School of the Arts, where she was a co-founder of the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival. She has also given classes at Parsons School of Design, New York, York College, Toronto; and Webster College, St. Louis. Juracek has designed scenery and costumes for regional theatre, opera and ballet, and for theatre in New York City. As a scenic artist she has worked on productions such as La Bohème, Don Giovanni and Salome at the Metropolitan Opera; and the films A Chorus Line, The Money Pit, The Glass Menagerie, Dead Man Walking and Night Falls on Manhattan. Desmond Heeley, David Hockney, Tony Walton and Franco Zeffirelli are among the many artists for whom she has worked. She lives in Connecticut, USA.