ISBN: 0-393-73068-9
January 2002
250 illustrations / 128 pages
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The Designer's Eye
by Brent Brolin
This imaginative book offers architecture students over a hundred examples of visual problem solving in architectural design. Photographs of actual buildings, paired with digitally manipulated images in 'before and after' comparisons, demonstrate the sorts of real-life situations that architectural design courses rarely teach students how to address, and show how designers can manipulate form and material to achieve desired effects: emphasizing or diminishing building elements, imposing visual order on a façade, or adding grace notes.
Praise for The Designer's Eye:
"A fine gift for a budding young architect, or any visually inclined individual for that matter. Pairing ordinary black-and-white photos with Photoshopped images of the same photo, the book demonstrates how often overlooked or underutilized architectural details like paint, lines, perforations, indentations, and cutaways can add to (or, too often, detract from) the finished product. The results are surprising and will open anyone's eyes to the visual tricks that exist in the built environment around them."
--Metropolis Magazine, December 2002
"Someone remind me: are we still in a fashion-moment when it's uncool to control effects? If so, Brolin's book is the antidote. It is a tool for recognizing and managing that trickiest and most critical of architectural phenomena, the repercussions of detail..The book is a primer for avoiding unintended results, for opening eyes to the power of simple moves, for letting go of words. It's about regaining control of architecture as a medium. The cumulative effect is to demonstrate that.there is an intrinsic logic linking form to feeling in the perception of architecture."
--Philip Nobel, Metropolis Magazine, December 2002
About the Author
Brent C. Brolin has degrees in art history and architecture from Yale University, and is the author of many books about architecture, including most recently Architectural Ornament: Banishment and Return.
ISBN 0-393-73068-9 / January 2002 / 250 illustrations / 128 pages
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