Perspective, Projections and Design: Technologies of Architectural Representation

by Carpo; Mario

• ISBN13: 9780415402040
• ISBN10: 0415402042
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The theory and practice of perspective in Vitruvius's De architectura	p. 5
Geometries of Phantasma	p. 19
Computer vision and painters' visions in Italian and Netherlandish art of the fifteenth century	p. 31
Alberti's Media Lab	p. 47
Constructing perspective in sixteenth-century Nuremberg	p. 65
Sebastiano Serlio prospettico: stages in his artistic itinerary during the 1520s	p. 77
Sebastiano Serlio: placing perspective at the service of architects	p. 95
Sophisticated geometry, baroque composition	p. 105
"The eye of the Sun": Galileo and Pietro Accolti on orthographic projection	p. 115
Fortification and military perspective in seventeenth-century France	p. 127
Pictorial versus intellectual representation: teaching perspective to architectural students at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1824-1900)	p. 141
From rationality to utopia: Auguste Choisy and axonometric projection	p. 151
Project and projections: some advantages of the principle of opacity	p. 163
Architectural embodiment: prosthetics and parasites	p. 175
Index	p. 189
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