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Miesian Grids and the Domain of Ink
Author(s) -
Manferdini Elena
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1974
Subject(s) - exhibition , inkwell , repetition (rhetorical device) , visual arts , grid , domain (mathematical analysis) , modular design , spring (device) , art history , series (stratigraphy) , computer graphics (images) , art , computer science , engineering , geology , philosophy , mathematics , geometry , mechanical engineering , programming language , paleontology , speech recognition , mathematical analysis , linguistics
What happens when you subvert the standardised repetition of the Modernist grid? In Building the Picture , a series of drawings that architect Elena Manferdini produced for an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago that ran during the spring and summer of 2015, visual effects and colour were applied to counteract Mies's highly uniform and modular mass‐producible systems.