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Graphic Imprints, Grids and Diagrams in Architecture
This text aims to reflect on the imprint that procedures, strategies and graphic instruments may have on design, and as a consequence, to what extent they influence the language of architecture.
Our essay explores the influence of grids and diagrams upon the course of architectural practice. In addition to the possibilities inherent in the analytical diagrams popularized by Rowe, we examine the generative role that diagrams can play, teasing out the potential structures of order latent in the exploratory stages of the design process. The critical role played by generative diagrams is most abundant in the design strategies of projects from the Renaissance onward, when drawing became the primary tool for conceiving and representing architecture. But the design and construction of pre-Renaissance buildings can also provide clear, if less explicit evidence of generative diagrams: evidence conveyed by the tracery of mediaeval masons, the placement and proportions of cathedrals laid out directly as templates on site; or the architecture of antiquity, with its alignments and optical corrections of walls and peristyles. The prescribed repetition of an array of aligned columns in a dimensional grid or the ‘rational magic’ of the happy Hippodamian layout are, perhaps, among the brightest moments of architectural reason. We also try to define transformative diagrams characteristic of some contemporary architectural practices with topological implications.
Graphic Imprints, Grids and Diagrams in Architecture
This text aims to reflect on the imprint that procedures, strategies and graphic instruments may have on design, and as a consequence, to what extent they influence the language of architecture.
Our essay explores the influence of grids and diagrams upon the course of architectural practice. In addition to the possibilities inherent in the analytical diagrams popularized by Rowe, we examine the generative role that diagrams can play, teasing out the potential structures of order latent in the exploratory stages of the design process. The critical role played by generative diagrams is most abundant in the design strategies of projects from the Renaissance onward, when drawing became the primary tool for conceiving and representing architecture. But the design and construction of pre-Renaissance buildings can also provide clear, if less explicit evidence of generative diagrams: evidence conveyed by the tracery of mediaeval masons, the placement and proportions of cathedrals laid out directly as templates on site; or the architecture of antiquity, with its alignments and optical corrections of walls and peristyles. The prescribed repetition of an array of aligned columns in a dimensional grid or the ‘rational magic’ of the happy Hippodamian layout are, perhaps, among the brightest moments of architectural reason. We also try to define transformative diagrams characteristic of some contemporary architectural practices with topological implications.
Graphic Imprints, Grids and Diagrams in Architecture
Springer ser. in des. and Innovation
Agustín-Hernández, Luis (editor) / Vallespín Muniesa, Aurelio (editor) / Fernández-Morales, Angélica (editor) / Marcos, Carlos L. (author) / Balmer, Jeff (author)
Congreso Internacional de Expresión Gráfica Arquitectónica ; 2020 ; Zaragoza, Spain
2020-05-12
15 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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