Poetic water images in architecture
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Eco-architecture: Harmonisation between Architecture and Nature. Hrsg. / Geoffrey Broadbent ; C. A. Brebbia. WIT Press, 2006. S. 143-152 (WIT Transactions on the Built Environment; Band 86).
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T1 - Poetic water images in architecture
AU - Kirschner, Ursula
N1 - Conference code: 1
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - This essay identifies and examines uses of water imagery in architecture worldwide and through centuries. Architects have introduced imagery in their architectural design since antiquity. This analysis illuminates how the intensive interaction with nature, in this case with water, corresponds to an ever lasting spirit. As Thales of Milet declared: "Water is the source of all things" [1]. This element plays a unique role in the interaction of natural forces. During the Renaissance and particularly during the Baroque age resistance to social alienation was expressed in an abundance of ornamentation; the water foliage and wave formations on the colonnaded capital are analogous to the multitude of water images at times used extensively in lyricism. The water with its varying states of aggregation and mobility inspired many architects to spectacular designs.
AB - This essay identifies and examines uses of water imagery in architecture worldwide and through centuries. Architects have introduced imagery in their architectural design since antiquity. This analysis illuminates how the intensive interaction with nature, in this case with water, corresponds to an ever lasting spirit. As Thales of Milet declared: "Water is the source of all things" [1]. This element plays a unique role in the interaction of natural forces. During the Renaissance and particularly during the Baroque age resistance to social alienation was expressed in an abundance of ornamentation; the water foliage and wave formations on the colonnaded capital are analogous to the multitude of water images at times used extensively in lyricism. The water with its varying states of aggregation and mobility inspired many architects to spectacular designs.
KW - Cultural Distribution/Cultural Organization
KW - Analogies in architecture
KW - Design method
KW - Nature and architecture
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U2 - 10.2495/ARC060151
DO - 10.2495/ARC060151
M3 - Article in conference proceedings
SN - 184564171X
SN - 9781845641719
T3 - WIT Transactions on the Built Environment
SP - 143
EP - 152
BT - Eco-architecture
A2 - Broadbent , Geoffrey
A2 - Brebbia, C. A.
PB - WIT Press
T2 - International Conference on Harmonisation Between Architecture and Nature - Eco Architecture 2006
Y2 - 14 June 2006 through 16 June 2006
ER -