A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
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The Generative Image:Spatial Photography, Embodied Experience, and Architectural Design
Human spatial experience is formed via our interaction with both site and body. In dialogue with the physical manifestations of the built environment, new sensations combine with our intuition to generate our spatial understanding. We do this through sensing, thinking, remembering and feeling. But we can also engage this process through making - via creative pursuits such as drawing, painting or photography that respond to our experience of spatiality. While the results of these pursuits are not the same as the sites they respond to, they generate ancillary meaning by operating in dialogue with our phenomenological and intellectual responses. In architectural practice, inquiry-via-making is the primary means by which a design project is developed, reflected upon and understood: rendering the world manipulable through abstraction such that spatial and architectural ideas can be applied to it. Photographic images – including photographs, renderings and AI imagery - are one such vital representational form. Extensively engaged for commercial means, architectural photographic images frequently appear polished, detached, and autonomous. Despite the medium’s general aptitude for promoting personal and collective ideas about space and architecture through memory and sensation, architectural photographic images largely exclude cultural, historical, and personal factors. Further exploration of the generative potential of photographic images offers an opportunity to forge alternate understandings of the purposes and possibilities of the medium as a design practice, linking the professional to the personal and allowing a broader range of disciplinary and cultural knowledge to inform the everyday methods of architecture. As such, this dissertation argues that architecture should embrace a more expansive practice of photographically informed representation. Making the case for an artistic and speculative approach to the photographic image, this dissertation asks what we might learn if we challenge hegemonic understandings of ...
The Generative Image:Spatial Photography, Embodied Experience, and Architectural Design
Human spatial experience is formed via our interaction with both site and body. In dialogue with the physical manifestations of the built environment, new sensations combine with our intuition to generate our spatial understanding. We do this through sensing, thinking, remembering and feeling. But we can also engage this process through making - via creative pursuits such as drawing, painting or photography that respond to our experience of spatiality. While the results of these pursuits are not the same as the sites they respond to, they generate ancillary meaning by operating in dialogue with our phenomenological and intellectual responses. In architectural practice, inquiry-via-making is the primary means by which a design project is developed, reflected upon and understood: rendering the world manipulable through abstraction such that spatial and architectural ideas can be applied to it. Photographic images – including photographs, renderings and AI imagery - are one such vital representational form. Extensively engaged for commercial means, architectural photographic images frequently appear polished, detached, and autonomous. Despite the medium’s general aptitude for promoting personal and collective ideas about space and architecture through memory and sensation, architectural photographic images largely exclude cultural, historical, and personal factors. Further exploration of the generative potential of photographic images offers an opportunity to forge alternate understandings of the purposes and possibilities of the medium as a design practice, linking the professional to the personal and allowing a broader range of disciplinary and cultural knowledge to inform the everyday methods of architecture. As such, this dissertation argues that architecture should embrace a more expansive practice of photographically informed representation. Making the case for an artistic and speculative approach to the photographic image, this dissertation asks what we might learn if we challenge hegemonic understandings of ...
The Generative Image:Spatial Photography, Embodied Experience, and Architectural Design
Cohan, Sonia Liljengren (author)
2025-01-21
Cohan , S L 2025 , The Generative Image : Spatial Photography, Embodied Experience, and Architectural Design . Copenhagen .
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Electronic Resource
English
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