Module 4

Foundations of Design : REPRESENTATION, SEM1, 2017 M4 JOURNAL - FRAME vs FIELD Monique Hillier

914836 Emmanuel Cohen Studio 1

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WEEK 9 READING: Perspective as a symbolic form

INVISIBLE CITY: PERINTHIA

Question 1: What are Durer’s rules for perspectival projection?

Durer was a German artist who is now regarded as one of the first artists to depict scenes in a scientific way1 and define perspective in detail. This reading explores his three rules about perspectival projection. The first is that all perpendicular lines meet at a vanishing point, which represents visual rays that all extrude from the eye. The second is that all parallels also meet at a mutual vanishing point. The last rule explains that objects of the same size shrink increasingly as they progress into the distance, meaning the picture becomes measurable and predictable, hence a scientific depiction2.

Albrecht Dürer. Draughtsman Making a Per-

spective Drawing of a Reclining Woman. 1600, Woodcut. Acessed 10 May 2017. Met Museum Collection.

Question 2: Describe homogenous space.

Panovsky explains that homogenous space exists when all elements of one space relate to one another to determine their positions only in relation to other elements of the same space. The word ‘homogenous’ itself defines things that are “of the same kind”3. Thus elements of homogenous space are all alike; they do not stand independent of each other and have no individual significance, but only have value where they are positioned against other elements. Homogenous space is always constructed space, because there is no natural variety4.

1. Trinity College Library 1965, “Dürer and perspective,” Treasures From The Collection, 26 May 2014, Sourced from https://trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress. com/2014/05/26/durer-and-perspective/ 2. Erwin Panovsky, Perspective as Symbolic Form (New York: Zone Books, 1991), 27-29 3. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/homogeneous 4. . Panovsky, Perspective as Symbolic Form, 30-31.

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CITIES & THE SKY 3: THEKLA Old QUAD ISOMETRIC

Old ISOMETRIC WITH NOTATIONS

Key Regular View Narow View Large Step

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old quad perspective 1 + 2

perspective scenes 1 + 2 View 1: I chose this central view because it shows how the astonomers and the centre of the city - the controllers and creaters. They are the starting point.

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For my first scene i focused on the beginning of the story. I used Rennaisance style images as they are an italian art syle of the 14th-16th century, the period when Marco polo lived and wrote “Livres des merveilles du monde”, and this suits the setting of the story. I wanted this scene to be idealistic and dreamy because the astronomers are envisioning and romanticising the idea of the city they would creare by looking at astrology and the heavens. The shadows are from the early morning sun and the overall colour is quite light because i wanted to reflect the hope for the city and symbolise a new beginning. Symbols such as angels, God and the cross refer to the Roman Catholic religion, and the planets, compass and stars symbolise anstronomy. I aimed to encapsulate the visions and thoughts of the astronomers in this scene.

For my second scene i focused on the period in the future when the city grew and developed but turned wrong and frightening. The colour of this scene is dark are there are horror like elements such as rats, cobwebs, screaming people and graffiti to create an eerie aesthetic. The story mentions that cripples, fat men and bearded ladies who roam the strees, all of which are included. I have used vintage photos instead of paintings to symbolise a movement forward in time periodsand generations. The ominous devil looks over the scene at the top now, not a god, to show how the astronomers were wrong and the horiffic city reflected what was up in the ‘heavens’. I have put a wall and a street in the background to show have the city has been built up over time, instead of original, bare landscape.

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WEEK 10 READING: Mapping the unmappable

Final drawings CITIES & THE SKY 3: THEKLA

Question 1: What is the difference between autographic and allographic practice?

authographic unchanging and fixed, notation of the artists allographic can be intepreted in different ways and replicated, subject to change

Hint: How Detailed does the drawing need to be?

Consider the ‘readability’ of the notations within the isometric projection and how the notations tell the same story as the scenes graphically illustrated in your perspectives.

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Question 2: Why do architects need new representational techniques?

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technology - phones, new prgrams, new dimensions and materiality.

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