![]() Graphic processes in autograph drawings of modern architects from its commencement in Borromini until the end of the 20th Century, Ph.D. Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley (2006)Īllepuz, A.: Traces of thought. Oxford University Press, New York (1977)Īlexander, C.: The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe. Akal, Madrid (1991)Īlexander, C.: A Pattern Language. KeywordsĪlberti, L.B.: De Re Aedificatoria. We also try to define transformative diagrams characteristic of some contemporary architectural practices with topological implications. 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. ![]() 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 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. 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. Our essay explores the influence of grids and diagrams upon the course of architectural practice. 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.
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