The Use of Technology and the !

Representation of Contemporary Architecture

MARE 500 Work-in-progress Presentation 5th of May 2011

Aim of Research:

Describe Discuss Compare Conclude

Core Theme:

This paper intends to gather contempory design practice and theory to access how architectural representation has developed from the use of hand drawing to the innovative use of computer technology.

Research Methodology:

Discursive

&

Analytical

Research Questions:

hand

Historically how did the physical creation of architecture take place? Is

drawing and modelling the best method of design? Should

we develop and evolve architecture to be designed digitally? How is architecture designed digitally? What are the pros and cons of each method of design? And can there be a hybrid of both methods of designing?

Method of communication

Research journal On-line Blog Research thesis

Findings to Date
1. First Chapter, The Physical: The Creation of Architectural Drawing Architecture the brother of Art Drawing and the Imagination The Techniques Within the Process

2. Second Chapter, The Digital 3. Third chapter, The Comparison 4. Conclude

The Creation of Architectural Drawing

Image: i. Statue plan, 3000 BC (Mesopotamia, Babylon)

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Continued

Image: ii. Giotto (1334) Campanile of Santa Maria del Fiore, Opera del Duomo, Siena.

Architecture the brother of Art

always work through some intervening medium, almost always the drawing, while painters and sculptors, who might spend some time on preliminary sketches and Marquette's all ended up working on the thing itself. (Evans, 1997) With out drawing there could be no architecture, at least no classical architecture constructed on the lines of geometrical (Ibid)

Images: iii. David Evans (1773) The Origins of Painting iv. Karl Schinkel (1830) The Origins of Painting

Continued

Image: v. Yuri Avvakumov and Yuri Kuzin. Red tower (Homage to Vladimir Tatlin), (1986) Screen print on newspaper.

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Drawing and the Imagination

One: The 'Naked City' by Guy Debord and Asger Jorn

Image: vi. Debord. G, Jorn. A (1975) The Naked City.

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Continued Two: The Berlin Free-Zone created by Lebbeus Wood.

Image

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Image: vii. Wood. L (1990) Berlin Free-Zone.

Continued Three: New Babylon by Constant Nieuwenhuys

Image: viii. Nieuwenhuys. C (1974) New Babylon, Concept model, Metal.

viii.

The Techniques Within the Process: Painting

ix.
For Hadid, turning to painting was a necessity. Feeling that traditional methods of representing architecture were not appropriate for inventing new ideas, she used painting to research representations of three dimensions through multiple perspectives. Ramirez-Montagut. M, 2006)

Image: ix. Hadid, Z (1983) The Peak: Blue Slabs,The Peak Club, Hong Kong.

Continued Drawing

The spontaneity of the sketch or scribble is potentially far closer to the moment of idea than the considered laboured presentation piece. (Cook 2008)

Image: x. Coop Himmelblau, (1969) Living pod, Pencil on Paper Sketch.

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Continued Collage

numerable mocks ups that were all hand drawn and pasted with image and text from weekly magazines, newspapers and sales catalogues. (Le Corbusier , 1948)

xi.
Images: xi. Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret, (1930) The Equipment interieur d'une habitation installation, Photo-collage. xii. Hawley, C (1982) Peckham House. UK Mixed media.

xii.

Continued Model

The model has the empting and irritating habit of inviting you to look at the parts from a variety of view points. Some good and some less so. (Cook 2008)

Image: xiii. Simon hangs and constant during shoot, 1962, (photographer: bram winham)

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Summary of research so far

xiv.
xiv. Frank Lloyd Wright, Hilla Rebay, Solomon Guggenheim, The unveiling of the model for the Guggenheim Museum, August, 1945

Further development
Inuential reading: 1. Responsive Environment: Architecture, Art and Design (Lucy Bullivant 2006) Responsive Environment- By denition spaces that interact with the people who use them, pass through them or by them- have in a very short space of time become ubiquitous. (Lucy Bullivant) Programming cultures: Art and Architecture in the Age of Software (Mike Silver 2006) It is only a question of time before software development becomes an integral part of the building design process. Certainly, this will be an unprecedented moment in the history of architecture. (Mike Silvers) Interactive Architecture (Michael Fox and Miles Kemp 2009) The increasing presence of interactivity in our built environment calls for architects and designers to integrate interactive and adaptive systemsto cross boundaries into engineering, computer and behavioural sciences. (Michael Fox)

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Completed Aims:
Proposal, abstract and introduction. Completed a descriptive chapter on the diverse topics of representing and communicating architecture with the use of physically produced methods. Discussed examples of physical representational design.

Still to be covered:
Create a descriptive chapter on digitally designed architecture. Compare both physical and digital technologies together. Conclude with a comparison of method to produce architecture and if they can be hybridised.

Question and answer?

Bibliography:
Quotes:
Cook. P (2008) Drawing: The Motive Force of Architecture, Great Britain, John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Evans. R (1997) Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays, London, AA. Smet. C (2005) Le Corbusier, Architect of Books, Italy, Lars Muller Publishers Ramirez-Montagut. M, (2006) The Guggenheim exhibition: Zaha Hadid, Manhattan, New York. Bullivant. L (2006) Responsive Environment: Architecture, Art and Design,New York, V&A. Silver. M (2006) Programming cultures: Art and Architecture in the Age of Software, London, Wiley Academy. Fox. M and Kemp. M (2009) Interactive Architecture, New York, Princeton Architectural Press.

Images:
ii. Statue plan, 3000 BC (Mesopotamia, Babylon) ii. Giotto (1334) Campanile of Santa Maria del Fiore, Opera del Duomo, Siena. iii. David Evans (1773) The Origins of Painting iv. Karl Schinkel (1830) v. Yuri Avvakumov and Yuri Kuzin. Red tower (Homage to Vladimir Tatlin), (1986) Screen print on newspaper. vi. Debord. G, Jorn. A (1975) The Naked City. vii. Wood. L (1990) Berlin Free-Zone. viii. Nieuwenhuys. C (1974) New Babylon, Concept model, Metal. ix. Hadid, Z (1983) The Peak: Blue Slabs, The Peak Club, Hong Kong. x. Coop Himmelblau, (1969) Living pod, Pencil on Paper Sketch. xi. Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret, The Equipment interieur d'une habitation installation, 1930, Photo-collage. xii. Haley, C (1982) Peckham House. UK Mixed media. xiii. Simon hangs and constant during shoot, 1962, (photographer: bram winham) xiv. Frank Lloyd Wright, Hilla Rebay, Solomon Guggenheim, The unveiling of the model for the Guggenheim Museum, August, 1945