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 Paola Giaconia (a cura di) "SPOOT ON SCHOOLS" catalogo della mostra, parte dell'edizione 2003 del festival BEYOND MEDIA Firenze 2-12 ottobre 2003 Mandragora, 2003 pp94, €8,50 acquista il libro online! YOUNG DIRECTIONS |
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The 2003 edition of BEYOND MEDIA/OLTRE I MEDIA is hosting for
the very first time a significant exhibition devoted to some of the
most distinguished schools of architecture in the world. SPOT ON
SCHOOLS offers a first survey of those classes that explored inventive
design strategies, facilitated by new technologies, and investigated
the ways digital media have informed the conception and production of
architecture. It is an exploration of the new ranges of architectural
communication that digital media have made available; an investigation
of how digital instruments are transforming the modes by which architects
can conceive and communicate their designs and of how technology and
mass media are shaping their representations; a presentation and discussion
of the state-of-the-art and cutting edge researches in the field. Which
are the most recent developments, within the field of architectural
education, of digital technologies applied to design research? How do
the new media affect the modes by which architects communicate, represent
and, most importantly, conceive their projects? |
[29aug2004] | |||
 The Bartlett, Faculty of the Built Environment, UCL (University College London), London, UK (photo: Omar Cotza).  Columbia University, GSAP (Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation), New York, USA. Installation of Sulan Kolatan's studio (photo: Omar Cotza).  UC Berkeley, Department of Architecture, College of Environmental Design, California, USA (photo: Omar Cotza). The works and researches presented by the 19 schools invited testify how greatly, despite the differences, the new digital tools have modified the discipline of architecture and, as explorative design aides for the creative process, shifted design expressions and ways of designing. The phase of compliance towards preconceived solutions, made possible by the media in hitherto unknown ways, has now been greatly overcome; the projects of these celebrated institutions affirm the will to understand the implications of new technologies of communication and computation. The "traditional" school -which already in the analog era used to show off its "nice drawings"- seems to be over by now. Besides displaying the most radical graphic presentations which stem from researches in the field of visual communication in architecture, the exhibit will include the results of new design methodologies that rely upon state-of-the-art softwares which -being employed in the creative process, and not merely as a drawing and representation tool- call forth a radical transformation of the traditional syntactical and grammatical standards of architecture. SPOT ON SCHOOLS is a wide though preliminary investigation, aimed at a changing international panorama that is in full development and is not afraid to reveal its heterogeneity and -as far as the most radical and extreme cases are concerned- even its indeterminateness. An agenda for future investigations. Paola Giaconia (curator of the exhibit) paola.giaconia@architettura.it (dall'introduzione al catalogo) |
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