Element

by Cecil Balmond

The genius of Cecil Balmond is behind some of the world's most exciting architectural endeavours, from Anish Kapoor's gigantic sculpture Marsyas at Tate Modern to Rem Koolhaas' CCTV buildings in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3791337785
• ISBN13: 9783791337784
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Prestel Publishing
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.8" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

An insightful and exciting book!

This is an amazingly poetic and innovative book that brings together nature, art and science at the most basic level. "Element" provides insights into different worlds not immediately visible to the untrained eye; patterns within patterns that slowly emerge with every new reading of the different passages. This is a wonderful blend of aesthetics and philosophical thought. Everything about the book is very impressive, the text, the carefully selected photos, the concepts it addresses, the layout, etc.. I thoroughly enjoyed reading and re-reading it! Element

Simple precursors to design modelling

The book was a surprise. As stated by other reviewers it has a hightened sense of graphic representation, with overlay line and pattern making searching out patterns in specifically chosen natural landscapes... It was this back to a base principle that was the interesting part. Basic yes. Fundamental yes. It leaves you with more a 'taught to fish' rather than 'given the fish' approach - which can be most infuriating when wishing to have a straight and direct answer. It a book that with a mind emptied of immediate questions will delight both mentally and aesthetically. I recommended this text for the simplicity of underlying basics that leads to the more complex.