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?