Barbara Stauffacher
Transforming Space: Graphic Design for Walls, Buildings & Spaces
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon (born 1928) is a landscape architect and graphic designer well known for the large scale interior Supergraphics and exterior signage at Sea Ranch in Sonoma County, California. She was first trained as a dancer, then she studied graphic design and later she studied architecture as well.
The history of Supergraphics would be different if it were not for Barbara Stauffacher Solomon. Barbara pioneered the use of Supergraphics ( big graphics that are applied with vibrant colors, usually in geometric shapes, over walls or floors and ceilings to make the illusion of altered space).
In an interview Barabara said:
"For me Supergraphics was an opportunity to be an artist again, to paint on big white walls, from wall to wall, and from wall to ceiling, and to do what I wanted to do without the daily office grind of clients telling me what they wanted from me. Charles Moore talked and wrote of Supergraphics being the deconstruction of the white walls of Modernism, the beginning of Post-Modernism – but he did this only after I'd painted my stuff on his walls at The Sea Ranch.”
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| Exterior of the Sea Ranch |
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| Interior of Sea Ranch |
I personally think the introduction of graphic design into architecture is quite an interesting combination and transformation of the space. Barbara took the 2D to a new dimension and blurred the boundaries between the 2D and the 3D world. The interdisciplinary always gives new perspectives to things and enriches it. The process of the combination is also one of a complementary.
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