Colour Photos for Understanding Ugly Book

Colour Photographs for book 'Understanding Ugly'

In Progress...  photos being added

Some of these images have been modified for clarity or so they can be used experimentally.  

Introduction:  Architecture - An art and a science?

        
Tycho Brahe Planetarium, Copenhagen           Jerwood Library at Trinity Hall, Cambridge      Architectural Association, London

Chapter 1:  Quandaries
       
Auditorium Building, Chicago                                       Wren Library at Trinity College, Cambridge                Lobby, Auditorium Building, Chicago

       
Suomi-Koti, Toronto, Canada                                       Conference Building, Alexandria Library, Egypt

Chapter 2:  Why the concerns?  Why now?

Pantheon, Rome.

Chapter 3:  What are the questions?

                   
Colaneri Estates Winery, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada         Poundbury, Dorset, UK 

Chapter 4:  The Historical Background of Building Appearance

        
Primitive hut in a suburban garden                              Hannelore Headley's Bookstore
                                Are these 'architecture'?

         
Interesting things found in 'amusement' locations            Temple of Portunus, Rome.  A different form of beauty?

       
The Queen's House, Greenwich, UK                                       Chiswick House, London, UK

Chapter 5:  The modern world

        
St.Pancras Midland Hotel, London.                                                                                           Bank of England, London 

    
All Saints Margaret Street, London, UK    All Saints Margaret Street-Interior        St.Michael's Cornhill, London

          
Vienna Rathaus (City Hall)                                                   Albert Memorial, London                                         St.Pancras Midland Hotel

      
St.Thomas Church, Rectory.  St.Catharines, Canada                                                       The Fisher Building, Chicago, 1896/1907

               
Modernist Tower Block, Coventry, UK                                               Buildings from the 1927 Deutcher Werbund Exhibition, Stuttgart, Germany

     
Post WW2 British prefabricated metal house (how functional can you get?)     vs     Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt (not a metal box)

Chapter 6:  The Development of Scientific Approaches - The beginnings in Psychology

Pleasant house in Oslo.  What aspects of this building make it so appealing to many/most people?  

Chapter 7:  The contributions of neuroscience

The Henry Taylor House, St.Catharines,  Canada.  c.1923, Nicholson & Macbeth, Architects

Chapter 8:  Understanding People - Four Exploratory Experiments

   Images for Experiment I: Considering Ordinary HousesI

    
Selection of images of house types used in Experiment I

Images for Experiment II: Changing Perceptions - Window ReplacementsI

Experiment III - The cues - What are people actually looking at?  What can we learn from suburban office preferences?

Experiment IV:  Looking at buildings

Chapter 9:  Assessments and Evaluations - Preferences and familiarity

Chapter 10:  Recognition and legibility

   
St.Paul's Cathedral, London, and San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome - Enduring esteem

Chapter 11:  Construction our preferences - Some inherent design factors

       
St.John's College, Cambridge                                          St.Peter's Basilica, Rome                                        Vienna State Opera

Clare Hall, Cambridge. 1969.  Ralph Erskine, Architect

Naturalistic ornamentation, Jeronimos Monastery, Lisbon

Chapter 12:  Personal Factors - Looking further into design

     
                                                                                                 Maitland Robinson Library, Downing College, Cambridge

        
Boston City Hall.  What do you think?                                                                             Many buildings have non-human scale 

Chapter 13:  Unity/Coherence/Balance/Order/Elegance/Harmony

Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada, Completed 2007.  Daniel Libeskind, Architect.
Spectacular from a distance, but how is the pedestrian supposed to react?  Does the streetscape
relate to the overall form?

Riddarhuset (House of Nobility).  Stockholm.  Completed 1660      Suburban house with conflicting elements.
Simon and Jean de al Vallee, architects.  Experimentally, the
author has found this ranked as a most elegant building.

Chapter 14:  Architecture Does Not Stand Alone - Context

Hotel Elisabeth, Mechelen, Belgium

             
   Pena Palace, Sintra Portugal                                Kunsthaus Wein (Vienna Art House)                    Programme notes can be important

The Robie House, Chicago. 

Chapter 15:  Details, Forms and Colours

            
                                                                                                                                      One moral of the story
                                                                                                                                              - don't design a building that will get dirty

Chapter 16:  If it isn't beautiful, what is it?  And why?

               
      Romantic                                                                    Charming                                                        Bizarre

       
Comforting / Reassuring / Just Familiar                             ...or perhaps we have been told to like it?

Chapter 17:  Why are there superstar architects?  What can we learn from them?

Chapter 18:  Glimpses of Delight - Pulling things together.