Robin Evans - Abstraction in Painting, Architecture, Mathematics
3,538 views · Published 27 March 2015 · 1:11:59 · Indexed 4 November 2026
Channel: AA School of Architecture · 2015 · Education
Lecture date: 1987-03-11 Formalities Lecture Series In the Formalities lecture series Robin Evans reviews aspects of composition with a view to finding out why those aspects are so often regarded as fundamental categories, and with a view also to showing how they interact with other kinds of phenomena. Artists such as Malevich, van Doesburg and Mondrian understood abstraction as the process by which modern art divested itself of its illustrative and mimetic elements in a progression towards a non-objective essence. Evans argues that this process was not one of reduction but of supplementation and exchange, replacing the pictorial with other elements such as colour and geometrical forms. Tracking abstraction from painting to mathematics he examines some of the concepts that arise - symbol, reference, augmentation, materiality, orientability, boundedness - and asks how they relate to architecture.
More from this channel
-
1:00
One minute animation by ZSUZSA PETER 2013
-
0:31
One minute animation by Daria Gavrilova 2013
-
1:16
The Mysterious Case of The Missing Sock by EMA HANA KACAR 2013
-
1:06
One minute animation by ALESSANDRO MAGLIANI 2013
-
1:01
One minute Animation by JONATHAN LAW 2013
-
1:01
The Strange Clip by Krystal Tsai 2013
-
1:10
A Day in the Countryside by PATRICIA DE SOUZA LEAO MULLER 2013
-
1:27
The Stain - Love & Crime. Basta!