Author. Architect + Critic. Content-creator.
The Art of Seeing Buildings
The Art of Seeing Buildings
This 7 Volume, 39 video series of animated visuals illustrates how new and old architectural ornament affects our perceptions of buildings.
Meant for anyone with an interest in their surroundings (including professionals), this project is an introduction to how details at all scales—at tops and bottoms, the surfaces in between and the openings that pierce those surfaces—affect the way we respond to buildings.
“The Art of Seeing Buildings” in videos.
Buildings communicate with us through their large-scale form, of course, but also through their details. Simple or fancy, modern or traditional, a building’s details—its architectural ornament—are one of the key ways architects communicate with us and affect our perception—how we “see” a building.
The Art of Seeing Buildings shows some of the ways these details can affect our response to a building.
Books.
Brent has written a number of books and articles ranging from the false ideology of modernism, and how the users ignore the architects’ intentions, to the origins of the demand for originality in art.
“Well argued and copiously illustrated, the book deals provocatively with questions central to the work of modern designers in many fields; it deserves a wide readership.” (1976)
—The New York Times
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“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.” (1976)
—Phillip Nobel, Metropolis