TITLE:
Architectural Composition: A Systematic Method to Define a List of Visual Attributes
AUTHORS:
Seyed Farhad Tayyebi, Yüksel Demir
KEYWORDS:
Architectural Composition, Composition Syntax, Formal Attributes, Visual Attributes
JOURNAL NAME:
Art and Design Review,
Vol.7 No.3,
June
11,
2019
ABSTRACT: Architects are now capable to construct diverse architectural compositions with various formal attributes.
Although theorists have defined diverse sets of composition attributes, no former list covers the features of our
newly built buildings. This study, for the first time, introduces a systematic
method to define all the visual attributes in the composition of a building. Arising from the definition of composition, the proposed method, after
defining the composition layers and families, prepares a composition graph;
then, by introducing three roots of the attributes, it creates a list of the
visual attributes. To give a better insight,
the method applied to four buildings and their visual attributes are extracted
accordingly. The employment of the procedure on a set of building images sharing a
criterion can reflect the most in-common formal attributes among them. Therefore, a list of building attributes are also prepared by applying the method on
200 randomly selected building images. The proposed method is adjustable to our needs and also applicable to
various art forms which the term composition covers. Consequently, the
introduced method has the potential to be an assistive tool in many formal
explorations studies.