Dreamscapes & Artificial Architecture: Imagined Interior Design in Digital Art

by Robert Klanten (Editor), Elli Stuhler

Eine Reise durch traumähnliche Landschaften, unglaubliche Gebäude und fantastische Räume an der Grenze des Vorstellbaren. Laut Oscar Wilde ist "Fortschritt die Verwirklichung von Utopien". Dreamscapes folgt seinem Weitblick und lädt seine Leser ein, Kulissen zu entdecken, die nicht von dieser Welt sind und die mit ihren Ideen den Weg in die Zukunft öffnen. Indem die Grenzen zwischen architektonischer Funktionalität und abstrakten künstlerischen Ausdrucksformen verschwimmen, offenbaren sich neue Visionen für Architektur, Design, Innenraumgestaltung und Bühnenbild. Das Buch präsentiert die Arbeiten führender Kreativer aus der ganzen Welt gemeinsam mit ihren Inspirationen und Zielen. Ideen, die von den Möglichkeiten digitaler Techniken wie Computeranimation und -grafik bestimmt sind und die eine neue inspirierende Richtung vorgeben, an der sich die Grenzen zwischen Realität und Fiktion auflösen.

Genres: Architecture

207 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2020

About the author

Robert Klanten has been a key figure in the global creative industry for more than a quarter of a century, helping to reimagine the way we approach publishing. He has driven over 800 publications and commercial projects.
Robert is the CEO of gestalten, the company he founded in 1995. Under his leadership, gestalten has established itself as a pillar in the field of contemporary visual culture, design and architecture, by immersing its readers in creative landscapes, cultures, people and art. gestalten regularly collaborates with the biggest names in the creative world and is known and loved by millions around the globe for its iconic books.
He has shown how creativity has no limits in the digital age: through inspiration, inclusivity and promoting understanding; and by connecting the global and the local through storytelling.

Reviews

[Justin Norman · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read through this in small chunks as the book contains so many overwhelmingly beautiful images it can feel like sensory overload after a handful of pages. To some degree it can become visually monotonous - the number of times textureless orbs are used by dozens of artists starts to seem a bit silly after awhile - but it’s overall an incredibly impressive collection of 3D art. The biographical information about each artist is unfortunately pretty bland and the text layout is often surprisingly ugly, but every once in awhile there’s some interesting information to be gleaned beyond stock descriptions like “their work calls into question our perceptions of reality”. The book could have been better but even half of the images here would make it worth picking up.

[Kate · Rating 3 out of 5]

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