Collage & overlaps

in archiecture representation

Team: Quang Vu, Duy Long, The Quang

 Table of contents

01 What is collage 02 History of collage

03 Types of collage 04 Effects of collage

collage in architecture
 01
What is collage?
A collage is a form of visual arts in which visual elements are combined
to create a new image that conveys a message or idea. Collage comes
from the French word “collér,” which means “to glue,” often the
primary means of combining images in collage art.
 Collagers can draw these images from newspaper clippings or print
advertisements, or cull them from different materials, like photographs, 
fabric, wood, and even ephemera. Collagers can apply the images to the
surface of another work of art, such as a canvas, to create a new single
image.
02
A brief history of
collage
 The origin

While collage hit the mainstream

in the twentieth century, art
historians state that its origins
trace back to the tenth century. CONTROL
Calligraphers in Japan used the
technique when crafting poetry.
Modern art

Collage art as a form of modern

art began in the early twentieth
century when Cubist artists Pablo
Picasso and Georges Braque
began gluing material—pieces of
paper, fabric, even objects—to
canvases and other surfaces
Dadaists and Surrealists

Hannah Höch - who glued photographs and

ads cut out of magazines
German artist Kurt Schwitters utilized the
form in his wood collages. Collage also
became a part of Surrealism, where artists
reveled in juxtaposing existing elements to
produce a single new work. Surrealist artist
Joseph Cornell adopted collage techniques to
create dream-like images shortly before
World War II.
INFLUENCE OF POP ART

In the mid-twentieth century, art

collage was a major influence on
the Pop art movement, first
through the playful work of
British artist Richard Hamilton,
and later, at a 1962 exhibit at the
Sidney Janis Gallery in New
York which showed works
by Andy Warhol and Roy
Lichtenstein.
TYPES OF COLLAGE
Papier collé

Taken from the French term meaning

“pasted paper” or “paper cut-
out,” papier collé, or paper collage, is a
collaging technique in which printed or
decorated paper is applied to a surface,
such as canvas, to create a new image.
The early collage work of Picasso,
Braque, and Spanish painter Juan Gris
are examples of papier collé.
Découpage
Initially used to describe a seventeenth-century
form of furniture-making and decoration,
découpage—taken from the French word
“découper,” meaning to “cut out”—involves
the arranging and pasting of colored paper
cutouts, often by layering, to create an image.
The image is then sealed with varnish. Henri
Matisse created many notable découpage
artworks, such as Blue Nude II (1952), after
illness made painting more difficult for him to
accomplish
 Photomontage

 A collage created by cutting and gluing

other photographs to create a new image
is known as photomontage or
compositing. The new image is
frequently photographed to create a
seamless element to the photo collage.
The prominence of digital image-editing
software has led to greater ease in
creating photomontage.
 Collage in
architecture
“Collage are used as a medium to record the creative
process of developing the ideas unlimitedly and never
finished”

Richard meier
 generating new ideas represent
projects

Used as a part of the design method and process itself. The

central idea is defined as a work of representation made with
various different materials combined or collected together
Collage’s role in architecture is to make
visible the innate process of architectural
invention
Like glue, they bring fragments of
images, sketches, patterns, materials
and textures together. In turn, they
define architectural and spatial
concepts.

To convey
multi-layered atmospheres
through drawing.
Adding people, surrounding to
create the atmosphere and
main concept of the buildings
Abstract spaces from Bob
Rauschenberg's collage Frank gehry’s house
04
Effects of collage in
architecture
One of the greatest aspects of
collage is that each approach
is unique, tied to the
individual and their method
and style for creating the
image
Collage can allow architects to imbue projects with specific
cultural notes within an agenda of contextuality, social-inclusion or
critical-regionalism.
Integrating visual and physical
elements, the result is usually a
quicker and more iterative way to
explore and translate ideas
Collage can tell more “stories” of the concept and history of
the building itself
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