Subscriber content preview
|
Design
Perspectives
By Clair Enlow
|
August 21, 2002
Local designers expand vocabulary of architecture
Like alchemists, architects can break down and transform materials.
If architecture is an art, what is the medium?
On the visual and linguistic plane, the architect works with space, experience, signs and symbols. But at a more basic level, it’s all about construction materials and technologies. When architects push the limits of their work at either level, design takes on the mantle of art.
. . .
Previous columns:
- A/E diversity means freedom to pursue dreams, 07-17-2002
- Today's land use rules give as well as take, 06-26-2002
- Can art be the basis for expanding architecture?, 05-22-2002
- Community design movement comes of age, 04-17-2002
- Home is where the park-and-ride is, 03-20-2002
- Row house renovation renews community, 02-20-2002
- Habitat protection for those who walk in Seattle, 01-23-2002
- Design's ultimate clients, the users, are too often forgotten, 08-15-2001
