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T H E O R G A N I C Nature • People • Design J. William Rudd Few words have been appropriated so widely for description, explanation or allusion as organic. Such appropriation has included subjects ranging from the sciences to the humanities and the arts and exhibited diversity unlimited by type, time, place, form or scale. It has included concepts as well as forms, processes as well as organization, objects as well as societies. While this extreme diversity might, seemingly, result in meaningless diffusion, the question of a shared core of qualities among such a range of references cannot be ignored.
This eclectic inquiry is an exploration seeking such commonalties. Focused on the area of design (the fine arts, applied design and architecture) in relationship to the world of ideas and aesthetics, such inquiry must be ever mindful of the human role and especially the influence of nature. That role has varied from an emphasis on mimesis to abstractions of process to the expression of structure. Thus as much attention to thought as observation is required, as much exploration of idea as image.
The organic is neither the ‘right way’ nor the ‘only way’ to describe complex phenomena in design (or the world in general). Moreover, it is neither the only nor right way to describe such phenomena within the parameters oriented to nature and emphasizing the human role. It is 'one way' within these parameters to describe and interpret the complex relationship between certain forms, the processes that derive them, the meanings they convey and the role of the human being in this holistic and dynamic act. We are pleased to announce that J. William Rudd received the 2002 OUTSTANDING ESSAY AWARD for The Organic: Nature, People, Design. The Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians recently announced the award. CONTENTS THE
ORGANIC –
INTRODUCTION
THE ORGANIC FOUNDATION
Chapter 1 — The Historical Context Chapter 2 — The Organic Concept Chapter 3 — The Organic Tradition THE ORGANIC
CONTEXTS
Chapter 4 — The Natural Context Chapter 5 — The Cultural Context MAKING THE
ORGANIC ARTIFACT
Chapter 6 —Conceptualization Chapter 7 —Configuration MEANING
AND THE
ORGANIC ARTIFACT
Chapter 8 — Experience and the Organic Chapter 9 — Interpreting the Organic Chapter 10 — The Organic Synthesis AN INTERLUDE — A Photographic Essay on the Organic
THE
ORGANIC ATTITUDE
Chapter 11 — Nineteenth-Century Attitudes Chapter 12 — The Organic Attitude Notes
on Literature Related to the Organic Bibliography Index About The
Author
J. William Rudd, Architect, artist, photographer, and historian, holds degrees from the University of Nebraska (B/Arch) and Northwestern University (MA/Art History). He has held faculty positions at Texas Tech, Syracuse, Cincinnati, Washington State, and Tennessee Universities. He has held administrative positions at Cincinnati (Chairman, Department of Architecture), Washington State (Director, School of Architecture), and Tennessee (Dean, College of Architecture and Planning). He
is a member of the academic honorary, Phi Kappa Phi, as well as a member and
Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (emeritus).
He has received an Ohio Governor’s Citation for community service as
well as a member of The Architectural Group that received an AIA Cincinnati
Design Honor Award. Both were in
recognition for the design and construction of the Lincoln Heights, Ohio
Community Facilities Building. He
has also received two Presidential Citations from AIA Tennessee.
In 1994 he served as a Fellow at the Daniel Center (Genoa, Italy) of
Clemson University’s College of Architecture He
has authored numerous articles and essays on modern architecture and art,
architectural history, theory, design, and education in addition to exhibiting
his constructed abstractions and photographs.
Finally, he has served as a guest lecturer and critic at over 30
educational institutions in the United States, Europe and Australia.
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Nature • People • Design J. William Rudd ISBN 0-9700675-5-0 Paperback 242 pages/25 Illustrations Copyright 2002 List Price 29.95
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