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be positive or negative. It is one of the most powerful forces The shapes suggested by Mt. McDowell are transformed by
in the world, producing myths, religions, art, architecture, forward morphing into architecture and art form. All the
peace, cold wars, hot wars, and oil wars. The value of while, the mind is preoccupied with the spirit of the mountains
abstraction lies in its ability to evoke creative ideas, to inspire and the spirit of the architecture
open-minded thinking and to stimulate the imagination,
generating creative energy. Imagination enables the designer During the abstraction process, the designer selects a natural
to arrive at endless design concepts, which are unpredictable, element as a modular building block for art structure. The
individual, and creative, leading to original art structure. selected element becomes inspiration from which art is built:
Milton Stricker in his book “Design through Abstraction” spirit, line, shape form color, texture, sound, rhythm, balance.
explains it through the loop of imagination, applied to The inspiration can be contained in mind, or expressed as an
mountains as source object: element of images, words, sound and motion.
Abstraction
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Stage 3: Assigning Architectural activity to a 3D composition Figure 16: 3D composition of abstraction (Student 2)
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2010.URL:www.miltonstricker.com/Book/.(05.01.2017)
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[2] I. Zaczek.“The Illustrated story of Art”.DK, 2013.
[3] M. Telang.“Aesthetic, Basic Design and Creativity in
Architecture, Pune:Sinhgad College of
Architecture”.2005.
[4] S. Parashar.“Basic Design Studio an ongoing research”,
Picture Stage1 2010.
Figure 17: Abstraction Process of student 3 (Source: [5] S. Sukhatme, “artinarch”, 2004. URL:
Researcher) www.artinarch.com/(05/01/2017)
[6] M. Runcoet. al “Encyclopedia of Creativity” Academic
press 1999.
Stage 2 Stage 3
Figure 18: Abstraction Process of student 3 (Source:
Researcher)
Conclusion
Purpose to introduce abstraction in first year design process
was intended to promote and support design
creativity/creative thinking.
Success in any approach to design studies and choice of
assignments depends on how these assignments are presented
to students and how these assignments are configured.
To achieve growth in visual design thinking, students have to
take risks and learn to accept failure positively. Some students
may even fail totally at some times, but they need to keep
trying to achieve desired result.
Overall Exercise 1 and Exercise 2 were successful to achieve
its aim and objectives. The beauty of abstracting nature for the
purpose of art, architecture, and life is a timeless idea, but
there is no final process, the paper tried to demonstrate an
opening step in abstraction for architecture.
References
[1] M. Stricker. “Design through Abstraction the Wright
Source to art & Architecture,
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