Architecture and Graphics, after thinking about what to pick for an essay questions as I feel COP is something I feel I need to improve and really try and enjoy in level five picking a question will be key in my engagement with the work. Architecture is a subject that has always been an interest and there are many connections with the ideologies of architecture and graphic design and design more broadly. The connection of lack of connection with architecture and graphics is a area that could have many interesting and critically engaging enough to formulate research and and essay. Outlining possibilities for this question was something key to highlight for the initial steps of this project. Using the planning and structuring and essay document on estudio as a basic guide I listed the following ideas and themes.
Initial broad question. - To what extent does architecture influence graphic design?
- This question not specific enough and needs refinement. Identifying this overarching theme first would allow me to break it down. The next questions are refinements that are more sepcfific of the orginal quesition.
How has architectural ideas of the Bauhaus influenced modern and postmodern graphics?
What role does contemporary architecture have in influencing graphics and typography?
What do I aim to argue? - Graphics and Architecture... areas of interest and connections between them.
- What are the links between?
- Differences in practice?
- How regimented the structure is?
- How rules are followed and broken?
- Social Obligations?
- Shaping the future?
- Links with space and atmosphere?
- The common connection of way-finding?
- Building a landscape?
- Following trends?
- Use of the grid systems?
- Cultural Changes?
- The art of simplicity?
Possible research points -
- Dutch Design and the Netherlands
- Ben Bos, Wim Crouell (Total Design)
- De Stijl
- Piet Mondrian
- Theo Van Doesburg
- Rietvield Schroder
- Modernism
- Experimental Jetset
- Le Corbusier
- Walter Gropious (Bauhaus)
- Form follows function
- Brutalism
- Mies van de Rohe
- Engineering
- Dieter Rams
- Gregory Hodkinson
- Humanistic architecture.
- Oase Magazine
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