Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Sleep With Heater On Sinus



Here's my commentary on the chapter of the book Introduction to the revolution in computer architecture A. essay entitled Landscape.

analyze the definition of landscape.

Nell 'Italian Encyclopedia Treccani reads: "View, view, part of the territory (country or mountainous) that a panoramic view from a certain point and that arouses in those who provides special impressions, or is distinguished by special features: a p. dreary, melancholy, charming, picturesque, p. winter, desert, from the window see a p. enchanting, stopping to admire the scenery. [...] "

On De Mauro: " appearance of a place in a territory where it is a panoramic view: p. picturesque, charming , sad. "

So according to the official definition seems that the landscape is a two-dimensional object. There is no way to perceive it in another way.

But this thing disturbs me deeply.

architecture and design in general must rely on a definition of "unofficially" that transcends and includes the first without deny it just as contemporary architecture has passed, incorporated, but never renounced the masters of modernity.

The landscape painting and photography is one thing, but that relating to the design of the area-that is the natural landscape or cityscape - is something else! It is born, lives, wetsuit, dies, is reborn, and especially interacting with the user. It is a set of three-dimensional objects of which only the image is two dimensional. Because, as any sign of the landscape designer, it makes no sense without the point of view, that without the observer.

oversimplifying the issue, if we were tourists in Rome and we were to walk down the Via dei Fori Imperiali or buying a card that represents them, we would not be in both cases the users of the landscape? Certainly yes, but in the second case we just look at a picture in the second we interact with the site.

So if for painting and photography, we adopt the definition of p. 45 seconds that "the only thing we can not help but to think the landscape is its image" because it "is a figure" for the design of the area should we adopt another, in which the only thing we can not help but to think the landscape is its observer , or rather, its user , which makes it even more the idea of \u200b\u200bsomething interacting.

If the key to contemporary design is its interactivity, the possibility of infinite connections "network" and the coexistence of multiple layers that are intertwined, how can the landscape is excluded and should be interpreted as a mere representation devoid of life?

Sunday, April 1, 2007

How Do I Know When Silicon Is Dry

via symbols

Here's my comment 'The Way of the symbols'

Today necessarily go along via symbols, at least in terms of communication, as new languages \u200b\u200bare highly symbolic. The steps in this way is shorter and the language barriers they fall away.

is natural to wonder what the bond between the new levels of communication architecture, which certainly can not ignore the changes.

Functionalism perhaps has never been in crisis because it has never been totally denied. It has not been overcome in the sense that the building should be designed not perform functions, but for the fact that the feature has been completely incorporated, absorbed, taken for granted in the same word 'architecture' is already included that of 'function'. Just as obviously, that of 'form'.

But there is a quid more that characterizes the architecture of the computer era, called by the new communication.

The architectural work has to communicate.

But what?

Here lies the crux of the matter.

Every job, the result of conscientious analysis, is dictated by the place, from her relationship with the city, from wanting to be a symbol, it must tell us who he is, what it represents, which actually belongs to. There will be no more movements, or avant-garde schools of thought to dictate the rules. But it will be 's environment in the broad sense: the architecture is bound to the place, its inhabitants, to the thousands of factors that converge in a city and, above all, expresses them in a visible manner. I want to play that

'new monumentality' that has transformed the Guggenheim Bilbao in a cathedral in this way.

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Bilbao