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The Candle At The Table: Work, Waste, And Leisure In The Modern Home, William Braham
The Candle At The Table: Work, Waste, And Leisure In The Modern Home, William Braham
William W. Braham
Digital or Physical? The translation of lighting design into the digital domain has yielded tremendous advances, but all modeling, and digital simulations in particular, necessarily involve a reduction of our complex visual experience. This study explores the achievements and limitations of current digital simulations, and identifies the terms or models by which architectural illumination might achieve a precision of concept.
What's Hecuba To Him? On Kiesler And The Knot, William Braham
What's Hecuba To Him? On Kiesler And The Knot, William Braham
William W. Braham
During the 1920s and 1930s , Frederick Kiesler belonged to De Stijl, the American Union of Decorative Artists and Craftsmen, Buckminster Fuller's Structural Studies Associates, and the theater faculty al Julliard; he also formed the Laboratory of Correalism at Columbia University, and through his association with Marcel Duchamp and the exiled Parisian art community, became the "official architect of the surrealists.” This article explores Kiesler’s intellectual history and his principle of Correalism.