Signs, Symbols, and Architecture
Author: Geoffrey Broadbent
Publisher: Chichester, [Eng.] ; New York : Wiley
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 460
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Author: Geoffrey Broadbent
Publisher: Chichester, [Eng.] ; New York : Wiley
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 460
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Published: 1981
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martin Treu
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2012-10-30
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 142140494X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTreu tackles the architectural history and signage of Main Street and the strip—from painted boards nailed over crude storefronts to sleek cinemas topped with neon glitz. Honorable Mention, Architecture and Urban Planning, 2012 PROSE Awards Signs, Streets, and Storefronts addresses more than 200 years of signs and place-marking along America’s commercial corridors. From small-town squares to Broadway, State Street, and Wilshire Boulevard, Martin Treu follows design developments into the present and explores issues of historic preservation. Treu considers “common” architecture and its place-defining business signs as well as influential high-style design examples by taste-making leaders. Combining advertising and architectural history, the book presents a full picture of the commercial landscape, including design adaptations made for motorists and the migration from Main Street to suburbia. The dynamic between individual businesses and the common good has a major effect on the appearance of our country's Main Streets. Several forces are at work: technological advances, design imagination and the media, corporate propaganda, customer needs, and municipal mandates. Present-day controls have often led to a denuding of traditional commercial corridors. Such reform, Treu argues, has suppressed originality and radically cleared away years of accumulated history based on the taste of a single generation. A must-read for city planners, town councils, architects, sign designers, concerned citizens, and anyone who cares about the appearance and vitality of America’s commercial streets, this heavily illustrated book is equally appealing to armchair historians, small-town enthusiasts, and lovers of Americana.
Author: Robert Venturi
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe observer-designer-theorists who analyzed the Las Vegas strip as an archetype in "Learning from Las Vegas" now turn their iconoclastic vision onto their own remarkable partnership and the rule-breaking architecture it has spawned for this fascinating retrospective of their life work.
Author: Richard Poulin
Publisher:
Published: 2012-11
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1592537790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis innovative volume is the first to provide the design student, practitioner, and educator with an invaluable comprehensive reference of visual and narrative material that illustrates and evaluates the unique and important history surrounding graphic design and architecture. Graphic Design and Architecture, A 20th Century History closely examines the relationship between typography, image, symbolism, and the built environment by exploring principal themes, major technological developments, important manufacturers, and pioneering designers over the last 100 years. It is a complete resource that belongs on every designer’s bookshelf.
Author: Adrian Frutiger
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 372
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the elements of a sign, and looks at pictograms, alphabets, calligraphy, monograms, text type, numerical signs, symbols, and trademarks.
Author: Robert Venturi
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rudolf Koch
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-12-31
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 0486153908
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFamed German type designer renders 493 classified and documented illustrations divided into 14 categories, including general signs, Christian signs, astronomical signs, the four elements, house and holding marks, runes, and more.
Author: Robert Bartlett Harmon
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 12
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