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sculpture
(redirected from sculpturally)

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See: contour, shape


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This is because architects see the status and generous budgets of cultural buildings as calling for the design of art objects, typically stand alone (even when connected to or extensions of other buildings) and sculpturally expressive iconic buildings.
Body parts, joints, and posture, all visible from a distance on the dance ground, are sculpturally emphasized over facial features, as the bulbous knees of one figure prominently demonstrate.
To right this wrong, they argued, the modern paradigm of "the duck"--in which the form expresses the building almost sculpturally, sometimes with its space, structure, and program distorted in the interest of monumental effect--had to cede to the postmodern model of "the decorated shed," a building with "a rhetorical front and conventional behind," where "space and structure are directly at the service of program, and ornament is applied independently of them.
 
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