Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Architectural Representation
Perez-Gomez and Pelletier discuss in the Perspective Hinge the progress of the representation of space through perspective and how the cultural notions of a determined period influenced on the representation of architectural drawings. During antiquity among Greek philosophers the concept of distance made it possible to represent space by triggering the need to illustrate it graphically and geometrically. The studies of optics and anatomy took the concept of perspective to a new level, perspective naturalis, were the intent of Greek philosophers like Euclid was to understand the metaphysics of light and the functioning of the eye to translate it into geometrical arrangements. In renaissance the aim of the artists and architects was to generate perspectives that bring together artificial geometrical constructions and optic geometry reconciling esthetics and techniques. Renaissance architects were able to design eternal architecture merging art and mathematics, geometry and god then how as architects will be able to reconcile the advent of digital tools with traditional representation in order to generate “truthful and poetical representation of architectural space”?
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You’ve hit on the toughest and most relevant question that this reading brings up as related to this course. How do we create new forms of architectural representation based on digital media? I think we have to look at architectural firms like Lewis Tsurukai Lewis and SHoP to see ways in which digital media can be used to recombine traditional forms of architectural representation. Or maybe in the future architectural respiration will be something that only computers need to process and is understood as 1010101001, and not a visualization. Or maybe we will return to the ‘straight from the mind of the architect to building’ form of gothic architectural process. But I think it is clear that it is our responsibility to rigorously reconcile digital media with conventional forms of architectural representation.
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