"In his resplendent large-scale photographs, Andreas Gursky captures the modern world, and its landscapes, people, architecture, and industries, in seductive detail. Shot from an elevated perspective and produced on an epic scale, Gursky’s images show the individual or granular—supermarket products, soccer players, windows on a building, or islands in the sea—subsumed by the masses or the environment"- (artsy.net)
Primary photos
Le Corbusier Modulor Man
"It was developed as a visual bridge between two incompatible scales, the imperial and the metric system. Le Corbusier described it as a "range of harmonious measurements to suit the human scale, universally applicable to architecture and to mechanical things". With the Modulor, Le Corbusier sought to introduce a scale of visual measures that would unite two virtually incompatible systems. Whilst he was intrigued by ancient civilisations who used measuring systems linked to the human body." (en.wikipedia.org)
Designing News, Francesco Franchi
Esther Stocker
Enle Li
"Enle Li is a student at the School of Visual Arts. For a school project, he created an edition work on the famous Swiss/French architect Le Corbusier. The Legacy is a biography book about one of the father of modern architects, Le Corbuiser. The task is to design a complete and deeper story of his legacy during the 20th century" Enle Li has created a grid system inspired by Le Corbusier to reinterpret and represent his works and findings. (behance.net)
In Designing News, award-winning editorial and infographics designer Francesco Franchi conveys his vision for the future of the news and media industries. He evaluates the fundamental changes that are taking place in our digital age in terms of consumer expectations and the way media is being used. The book then outlines the challenges that result and proposes strategies for traditional publishing houses, broadcasting companies, journalists, and designers to address them.
Italian installation artist Esther Stocker creates stunning geometric environments that can often be explored by the viewer. The construction of each piece appears to follow some type of strange equation, resulting in unusual linear patterns and planes that completely transform the physical pace. (galeriealbertapane.com)
Grids
"A Grid subdivides a page vertically and horizontally into margins, columns, inter-colin spaces, lines of type, and spaces between blocks of type and images. These subdivisions from the basis of a modular and systematic approach to the layout, particularly for multipage documents, making the design process quicker, and ensuring visual consistency between related pages."
From researching buildings that have a similar resemblance and structure to grids and layouts due to the way their builds incorporate various forms of squares and rectangles, I have found that even thought due to their appearance and the materials they are made from, concrete and brick, they all look very different and individual due to their unique uses and purposes. I think that the shapes of squares and straight edged lines crete bold and strong looking buildings and have been carefully mapped out as the grids created included the features of windows and not just how the almost layers to the buildings are stacked.
The streets of London include a wide variety of new and old buildings that almost look as if they have build built on top of one another and layer over each other as from certain angles from the street this effect is shown due to their different heights and lengths. I have noticed that the use of large scale windows are becoming a very popular design theme through London as grids with these features look almost seamlessly build with not many noticeable support features visible. Relating to grids I think that the combination of the streets, pavements and the buildings built alongside collect pockets of structures as a combination of straight lines create patterns.