Perspective, Projections and Design: Technologies of Architectural Representation - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415402042 ISBN 13: 9780415402040

Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

The essays selected for this book, presented in chronological order, discuss various aspects of image-making technologies, geometrical knowledge and tools for architectural design, focusing in particular on two historical periods marked by comparable patterns of technological and cultural change. The first is the Renaissance; characterized by the rediscovery of linear perspectives and the simultaneous rise of new formats for architectural drawing and design on paper; the second, the contemporary rise of digital technologies and the simultaneous rise of virtual reality and computer-based design and manufacturing.

Many of the contributing authors explore the parallel between the invention of the perspectival paradigm in early-modern Europe and the recent development of digitized virtual reality. This issue in turn bears on the specific purposes of architectural design, where various representational tools and devices are used to visualize bi-dimensional aspects of objects that must be measured and eventually built in three-dimensional space.

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About the Author

Mario Carpo is Associate Professor at the School of Architecture of Paris-La-Villette.

Frédérique Lemerle-Pauwels is Director of Research at the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance and University Francois-Rabelais in Tours, France.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415402042
• ISBN 13: 9780415402040
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Carpo Mario, Lemerle Frédérique