With repetition, the basic shapes of these buildings become iconic.
SINGAPORE — "Everything can be simplified in the basic shapes of lines and angles," Anthony Poon once said.
It's now easier for them to touch on the basic shapes of Arabic letter forms through an enjoyable visual exploration.
It records the basic shapes and features of each building in a bright swath of outlines and color that fills the middle register of the paper.
The basic shapes date from the 15th century, when local monks used similar pitchers for wine, water and oil, said Giorgio Meriggi, an owner of Gubbio.
What we have are slow-motion approximations, capturing the basic shapes of rhythm and interval of various calls but bearing as much resemblance to their originals as a Cubist depiction of a photographed nude.
On his cut stone, the carver first traces the basic shapes in pencil (for particularly exuberant originals, a clay model may be made to help in the tricky task of turning a two-dimensional drawing into a three-dimensional carving).
By the early 1960s, while Bernard Leach was producing some of his best pots, depending increasingly on Marshall to make the basic shapes, Marshall's personal work was becoming more fluid and assured.
The new attention to potential disasters may also have an effect on the basic shapes of buildings, as designers seek to protect the vital core of the structure, which contains the elevators, stairwells and utility lines.
Cervantes complained that reading a translation was "like looking at the Flanders tapestries from behind: you can see the basic shapes but they are so filled with threads that you cannot fathom their original lustre".
The basic shapes are still the same as the designer originally created: long, lean and dark, although cape jackets gave a new roundness and pants were soft and stretchy enough to break over the instep.
