Stripes, Grids and Checks
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780857856579
Subjects: Decoration and ornament, themes, motives
Description: Stripes, Grids and Checks considers the nature of lines and assemblies of lines, including stripes and grids, as well as related phenomena such as checks, tilings and patterns, regular and irregular, repeating and non-repeating. A wide range of examples are drawn from urban and rural environments, at the macro and micro levels, in land- and cityscapes, buildings, and other designed constructions, compositions and objects. Considered conventionally, checks, periodic tilings and regular patterns owe their compositional arrangements to an order imposed by an underlying grid structure. The inten.