Surfaces: Visual Research for Artists, Architects, and Designers

Judy Juracek

Overview

Looking for images of architectural materials? Surfaces offers over 1,200 outstanding, vibrantly colorful visual images of surface textures--wood, stone, marble, brick, plaster, stucco, aggregates, metal, tile, and glass-- ready to be used in your designs, presentations, or comps, as backgrounds or for general visual information.

Photographed by a designer for designers, these pictures show specific materials and how they change with time, weather, wear, and different lighting. Each section offers general views of the material, a gallery of commonly used or manufactured samples, and hundreds of specimens showing types and finishes in architectural settings. Captions provide information about the physical properties, dimensions, construction techniques, specific varieties of the material, and types and styles of treatments.

Interviews with eight design professionals provide practical advice on how they approach visual research, and a comprehensive glossary of visual and technical terms offers a vocabulary for professional communication. An index of subject matter and materials makes it easy to find just the image you need.

CD-ROM included: 72dpi scans of every image, in easy-to-use TIFF format!

Acclaim

"Surfaces provides a great handbook of current source material about surface textures all in one neat package for students and professionals in the fields of architecture and interior architecture."

-Teri Figliuzzi, Kohn Pederson Fox

About the Author

Judy A. Juracek has worked as a scenic artist in film, television, Broadway theater, and at the Metropolitan Opera. She lives in Connecticut.

ISBN: 0-393-73007-7
August 1996
320 pages; 1000 color illustrations; cloth with CD