Be seated / Laurie Olin.

Main entry:

Olin, Laurie, author.

Title & Author:

Be seated / Laurie Olin.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

[Novato, CA] : Applied Research + Design Publishing, [2017]
©2017

Description:

213 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Looking back-Landscape and seating -- Discovering the ordinary -- Simple truths in plain sight -- From appreciation to action -- Not-so-simple problems -- Variety surrounds me -- Ordinariness and form -- Nature and change.

Summary:

"The book consists of a series of essays that begin with the author's personal discovery of public seating. An 'ah hah' moment as a young architect visiting Paris and his early experience as a designer is followed by a brief history of the evolution of public space and seating in the West. This is followed by an account of some of his experiments as a landscape architect, and the theory, craft, and role of seating in a number of prominent civic places his firm and others have designed in the past four decades. Along the way there are reflections on the author's interest in chairs, seating, public space, and aspects of the profession of landscape architecture. Accompanying the essays there are sketches, and watercolors made by Olin over time while traveling or working that weren't originally intended as book illustrations. Some are quick, hasty notes of something observed; others are more careful studies with, on occasion, measurements. Some were made leisurely while enjoying a felicitous moment or place, while others record the author puzzling through a particular design problem. Each in some way exemplifies aspects of the essays helping to articulate or sharpen the author's insights and point of view - those of a designer, not a historian or critic. They offer an alternative presentation of the topics raised, and a dialogue between writing and image - whether one of contrast, or at times, contrast"--Publisher's description.

ISBN:

1939621720 (hardback)
9781939621726 (hardback)

Subject:

Olin, Laurie Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Olin, Laurie
Seating (Furniture) Design.
Chair design.
Benches Design.
Seating (Furniture) Sociological aspects.
Chairs Sociological aspects.
Benches Sociological aspects.
Public spaces Pictorial works.
Artists Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Drawing Technique.
Watercolor painting Technique.
Chairs Pictorial works.
Sièges (Mobilier) Design.
Sièges (Mobilier) Aspect sociologique.
Espaces publics Ouvrages illustrés.
Artistes Notes, esquisses, etc.
Dessin Technique.
Aquarelle Technique.
Artists
Chairs
Public spaces

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 297599
Call No.: BIB 243962
Status: Available

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