Fractal Art Nouveau Design and the Need to Revive it in the Contemporary Environment

In the art nouveau era, nature was a source of inspiration for designers. They used it in their designs, without knowing the concept of fractal, to present optimum design solutions. The aim of this article is to show that fractality features can be achieved in art nouveau design, and the need to rev...

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Published inInternational journal of designed objects Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 19 - 39
Main Author Attia, Doaa
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Rome Common Ground Research Networks 2019
Subjects
Art Nouveau
Designers
Fractals
Interior design
Self-similarity
Sustainability
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Summary:In the art nouveau era, nature was a source of inspiration for designers. They used it in their designs, without knowing the concept of fractal, to present optimum design solutions. The aim of this article is to show that fractality features can be achieved in art nouveau design, and the need to revive these features in the contemporary environment. This study analyzed the work of two well-known art nouveau designers, Gaudi in Spain and Horta in Belgium using their outstanding examples of the “Sagrada Familia Cathedral” and the “Tassel House,” respectively. This study relied on the fractal feature “self-similar successive iterative shapes from large to small inside a finite region” as a standard of measurement. The analysis illustrated that the previous art nouveau designers used the concept of fractal in their design without realizing and their designs achieved aesthetic, functional, sustainable, and healthy solutions.
ISSN:2325-1379
2325-1395
DOI:10.18848/2325-1379/CGP/v13i01/19-39