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Deus Ex Machina: From Semiology to the Elegance of Aesthetics

Foster Gage, Mark

10.1002/ad.401.abs

Architecture's ability to realise large‐scale effects permits its emphasis to shift aesthetics on a project‐by‐project basis. Elegance unleashes a specific visual intelligence that can be achieved by refinement and precision of surface. Here, Mark Foster Gage investigates how elegance can be designed into a project. This requires a ‘visual and formal expertise’ combined with a careful curation of mutation and awareness of ‘extreme differentiation’. Elegance often only reveals itself partially, acquired, in the design stage, through ‘isolated views and expertly calibrated moments’ and perceived fleetingly in built work. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Deus Ex Machina: From Semiology to the Elegance of Aesthetics

Foster Gage, Mark

10.1002/ad.401.abs

Architecture's ability to realise large‐scale effects permits its emphasis to shift aesthetics on a project‐by‐project basis. Elegance unleashes a specific visual intelligence that can be achieved by refinement and precision of surface. Here, Mark Foster Gage investigates how elegance can be designed into a project. This requires a ‘visual and formal expertise’ combined with a careful curation of mutation and awareness of ‘extreme differentiation’. Elegance often only reveals itself partially, acquired, in the design stage, through ‘isolated views and expertly calibrated moments’ and perceived fleetingly in built work. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Deus Ex Machina: From Semiology to the Elegance of Aesthetics

Foster Gage, Mark

10.1002/ad.401.abs

Architecture's ability to realise large‐scale effects permits its emphasis to shift aesthetics on a project‐by‐project basis. Elegance unleashes a specific visual intelligence that can be achieved by refinement and precision of surface. Here, Mark Foster Gage investigates how elegance can be designed into a project. This requires a ‘visual and formal expertise’ combined with a careful curation of mutation and awareness of ‘extreme differentiation’. Elegance often only reveals itself partially, acquired, in the design stage, through ‘isolated views and expertly calibrated moments’ and perceived fleetingly in built work. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Title:

Deus Ex Machina: From Semiology to the Elegance of Aesthetics

Contributors:

Foster Gage, Mark (author)

Published in:

Architectural Design ; 77 ; 82-85

Publication date:

2007-01-01

Size:

4 pages

ISSN:

1554-2769 , 0003-8504

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1002/ad.401

Type of media:

Article (Journal)

Type of material:

Electronic Resource

Language:

English

Keywords:

‘Animate Form’ , Chung Yeon Won, Ali Rahim Studio, University of Pennsylvania , Iconic Buildings' , Paul Privitera , Charles Jencks , Peter Eisenman , Architectural mutation , Architectural formalism , mutation , ‘Intricacy’

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