Karen, G.

Japanese: カレン,G. - かれん
Karen, G.

…The term was first used in English in 1880 to describe a painting of a city, in contrast to a landscape. In Townscape (1961), Karen G. Cullen defined a townscape as a three-dimensional spatial composition created by the gathering of multiple buildings, trees, water, traffic, and advertisements, and proposed a technique for “connecting” the various components of a cityscape to achieve visual pleasure. [Kurokawa Naoki]…

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Karen, G." is listed below.

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Japanese:

…1880年,風景画landscapeに対比して都市を描いた画題をこう呼んだのが英語の初出。カレンG.Cullenは《タウンスケープ》(1961)の中で,複数の建物,さらに樹木や水,交通,広告物などが集合することによって作り出される三次元の空間構成をタウンスケープと定義づけ,都市景観の構成諸要素を“関係づけて”,視覚的な喜びを実現するための技法を提唱した。【黒川 直樹】。…

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