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Drawings & Numbers: Five Centuries of Digital Design
The aim of this course is to highlight some technical aspects of the classical tradition in architecture that have so far received only sporadic attention. It is well known that quantification has always been an essential component of classical design: proportional systems in particular have been keenly investigated. But the actual technical tools whereby quantitative precision was conceived, represented, transmitted, and implemented in pre-modern architecture remain mostly unexplored. By showing that a dialectical relationship between architectural theory and data-processing technologies was as crucial in the past as it is today, this course hopes to promote a more historically aware understanding of the current computer-induced transformations in architectural design.
Drawings & Numbers: Five Centuries of Digital Design
The aim of this course is to highlight some technical aspects of the classical tradition in architecture that have so far received only sporadic attention. It is well known that quantification has always been an essential component of classical design: proportional systems in particular have been keenly investigated. But the actual technical tools whereby quantitative precision was conceived, represented, transmitted, and implemented in pre-modern architecture remain mostly unexplored. By showing that a dialectical relationship between architectural theory and data-processing technologies was as crucial in the past as it is today, this course hopes to promote a more historically aware understanding of the current computer-induced transformations in architectural design.
Drawings & Numbers: Five Centuries of Digital Design
Leonardo Diaz Borioli (author) / Mario Carpo (author) / Massachusetts Institute of Technology (author)
Miscellaneous
Electronic Resource
English
DataCite | 1925
|The English formal garden : five centuries of design
TIBKAT | 1997
|Five centuries of the Parisian faubourgs
Online Contents | 1996
Five centuries of the Parisian faubourgs
British Library Online Contents | 1996