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Ponte Academic Journal
Jul 2024, Volume 80, Issue 7

SHAPE AND FORM GENERATION IN THE DESIGNS OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT DIANA ARMSTRONG BELL WHO WAS INSPIRED BY KAZIMIR MALEVICH’S PAINTINGS

Author(s): Filiz Çelik

J. Ponte - Jul 2024 - Volume 80 - Issue 7
doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2024.7.1



Abstract:
The most effective tools employed by designers to express and embody ideas have been shape and form. When shape and form are analyzed as visual impact elements in the design, the order of the geometric shapes and forms must be defined. The shape grammar method helps to understand and analyze the shapes and forms that result from design in architecture and art disciplines and to uncover the rules of design. The projects that were designed by Diana Armstrong Bell, who was inspired by the paintings of the painter Kazimir Malevich, were discussed in the present study. She also transformed the landscape designs, which she worked on as an abstract painting on the plan plane, into a classical painting by using different techniques and axonometric perspective. As a result of the examination and analysis, it was found that Armstrong Bell worked like an abstract painter in her designs using both primary geometric shapes and new shapes obtained based on primary geometric shapes. In Malevich’s paintings, geometric shapes and forms correspond to spaces with different functions in her designs, grass areas correspond to the white surface on the canvas, and the lines and shapes intersecting each other appear as roads or thin water surfaces.
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