Curve: Analysing Architecture Notebooks Office Supply Publisher: Alserkal Programming

Publisher: Alserkal Programming

ornament comes to function less as an overt marker of cultural difference than the specific terrain on or through which a sophisticated dialogue between the iconography of traditional Islamic forms and the history

ISBN: 9780500094112

and exchange over the centuries and throughout cultures

Curve: Analysing Architecture Notebooks Office Supply Publisher: Alserkal ProgrammingCurve is a divisive issue in architecture. Some see curves as expensive and decadent; others as an expression of transcendencea way that the human mind can express its freedom from quotidian constraints. Yet others use curves to emulate some of the most beautiful forms in nature. Each of the Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda