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Invisible Images - The Silent Language of Architecture

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Critical Praise for INVISIBLE IMAGES: THE SILENT LANGUAGE OF ARCHITECTURE "This extraordinary, original book delves into the mysteries of visual creativity. It can be explored on a variety of levels in linear and non-linear ways, but on all levels, from layout to theory, it awakens the artist within." SUZANNAH LESSARD, Author, The Architect of Desire; Contributing Author, New Yorker Magazine "Willis presents a remarkable range of images, using them in a perceptive and original way as she explores the nature of the creative process. Invisible Images undertakes a daunting task; but, through skillful graphics and a compelling thesis, it urges the reader to consider anew the language of art". ARCHITECT HUGH HARDY "Anthropologists tell us that there has never been a culture anywhere on earth that was able to get along without what we call art. This is to say that our gift for play, for making things, for looking inward as well as outward, must possess a certain Darwinian advantage. What can that advantage be? Taking evident pleasure in the formal contradiction of the title of her book <i>Invisible Images</i> architect-artist-writer Beverly Willis speculates on this and other questions from a scary position in the tent of intellect, on a trapeze that scorns the need of a net below. I read it with admiration." CRITIC BRENDAN GIL