AArchitecture 42
Firmament
Extended Brief
“Whatever looks natural, must not be factual.” – Hito Steyerl
The firmament is held by two vaults. Cosmas Indicopleustes
The sun, planets and angels and the firmament. 1475
Man as the “microcosm� in the centre of the celestial spheres. 13th century
St. Marco: South Cupola, West Narthex, 1215–35
The firmament is pushed back around the solar system.
Depiction of Copernicus in the age of enlightenment
What swims in the waters above?
The projection of the sky onto a sphere of indefinite radius
The hdri is a celestial sphere
“Precise photographic fragments seamlessly morph together to give the bling of plausibility to virtual objects and environments.� Some Reasons for Travelling to Italy, Peter Wilson
“A mechanic assemblage and an assemblage of enunciation.� Techniques of the Observer, Jonathan Crary
“Digitalisation as a process of re-materialisation of the image” – Harun Farocki
Residential Compositions: Tanikawa House, Kazuo Shinohara
The artist, the unwritten and the viewer (UCLA Department of Art Lectures: Jeff Wall)
72 computer-generated views of the spherical image
Preempting photogrammetry – the double exposure in the photo stream
The Light Cage/Stage is a low resolution spherical screen. It is an analogue hdri device.
The origin of virtual reality lies in the theatre of cruelty
A magician balancing a glass sphere
A magician in a glass sphere
Mark and his wife
Victorian objects of fascination, some housed mechanical devices, others scenes
A wax cross
A scaled graveyard with their hair
Process drawings of Anna Viebrock
Ingeborg Strobl documenting the Stadthallenbad in advance of the planned refurbishment.
Ingeborg Strobl documenting the Stadthallenbad in advance of the planned refurbishment.
“Finding the advantages of blankness, becoming connoisseurs of the colour variations in the fluorescent lighting of an office building just before sunset.” – Rem Koolhaas
“Can the bland be amplified” – Rem Koolhaas
The subtleties of white in an hdri – becoming connoisseurs of the colour variations in fluorescent lighting.
Firmament
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AArchitecture 42
Edited by students at the Architectural Association
Extended Brief