Dreamscapes maps a new creative current in spatial visualisation, gathering work from leading practitioners worldwide who fuse digital rendering, 3D art, and architectural thinking to construct idealised worlds that exist between fantasy and reality.
About This Book
Anchored in Oscar Wilde's provocation that progress is the realisation of utopia, Dreamscapes assembles a global body of work that collapses the boundaries between architecture, interior design, set design, and abstract art. The showcased pieces are rooted in spatial design yet push far beyond practical application — using computer rendering and 3D art to visualise landscapes and built environments that feel simultaneously plausible and otherworldly. For designers, architects, and visual artists grappling with where digital technique meets aesthetic ambition, this is a serious survey of utopian imagination as a design force.
Key Features
- 208 pages of full-colour digital renders, 3D visualisations, and architectural dreamscapes from leading creatives across the globe
- Published by Gestalten, 2020
What You'll Discover
- How digital techniques — computer rendering and 3D art — are being deployed to expand the conceptual boundaries of architecture and interior design
- The fusion of fantasy and reality as a design aesthetic, and what it means for spatial practice in the contemporary moment
- Work from leading creatives worldwide whose roots in spatial design inform a distinctly architectural sensibility, even in abstract or non-built work
- Utopian visualisation as a mode of critical inquiry — how imagining idealised worlds can articulate a direction for design's future
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 208
- Dimensions: 210 x 260 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783899552492
- Publisher: Gestalten
- Publication Date: 2020
Perfect For: Architects, interior designers, set designers, and digital artists interested in utopian visualisation, 3D rendering aesthetics, and the expanding possibilities of spatial imagination.