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Author:   C. L. Kausel
Publisher:   WIT Press
Imprint:   WIT Press
ISBN:  

9781845645748

ISBN 10:   184564574
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   30 June 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents PART I: INTRODUCTORY ESSENTIALS Introduction; Foreword to Part I; The Endurance of Design Against the Odds; The Life of Culture in Design PART II: ANCIENT DESIGN: IMPLEMENTS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE MIND Foreword to Part II: Ingenuity, Intuition and Myth; Expertise to Impression; The Pantheon's Intuitive Iconography; The Emulation of a Model: The Creation of an Architectural Motif; Supports: A Medium that the Mind Transforms and Shrouds in Mystery; The Intuitive Concave Forms PART III: THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE HUMAN OUTLINE Foreword to Part III; Cognitive Culture and the Ornamental Application of Structures; The Mind's Authority in Design; Vaults and Trefoils PART IV: REPRESENTATION Foreword to Part IV: Function and Image; The Import of Representation; Ornamental Architectural Images in Exterior and Interior Applications; Structural Ornament in Furniture and Crafts; The Place of Architectural Motifs in the Issue of Coating; The Suggestion of Precious Materials; PART V: DESIGN ISSUES OF TODAY AND YESTERDAY Foreword to Part V: Why Culture Decorates; The Authority of an Ancient Structure; The Public's Protectionist Attitudes; Invention, Inspiration and Biomorphic Design; The Illusory Dimension of Categories; Objective Study of Form PART VI: DISCUSSIONS AND CONCLUSIONS Foreword to Part VI: Longings, Creativity and Fulfillment; The Sway of Possibility; Summary: Interpretation and Illusion

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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.

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