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The new footwear style of contemporary architectural is started from the twenty-first century, at this time, architecture and fashion has a close exchanges and contacts. It’s quite common that the shoes manufacture borrow a lot of techniques from architectural areas including principle, structure, style and technology. It also implies a straddling behavior that makes people bring out the creative thinking.
Using the architectural style of the structure in footwear design is not only for decoration on the surface, but also the body of the shoe structure design be incorporated into the considerations. In addition to improving the structure of variability of the shoe, the safety and comfort also take into account. In recent years, due to the contemporary architecture style and innovative manufacturing technology be introduced in footwear design industry, there is a fundamental revolution in the structure of the shoe, it seems that the shoe is no longer a shoe, it could be a sculpture, also could be presented as art.
The concept of this creation is to explore the development of modern and contemporary architectural styles of footwear, and do some famous case studies, and create “Contemporary Architectural Style Footwear Design Trends for Contemporary Architectural Style Footwear” which modified originally from the “Modernist Style Building Guidelines”. I will use this design trends in evaluating and proving the similarities of the shape and structure between contemporary architecture and the footwear, then summarize the design principles and elements from the analysis, followed are concept design proposals and competitions participation. Eventually I want to verify the feasibility of using the concept of contemporary architectural style in footwear design.
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