General Lee Animation

 

This study is a diagrammatic breakdown of the relationship between the camera and the car within the construct of the first scene of the Dukes of Hazzard.  Simplifying the constituents of the procedural sequence allows for a concise examination of the bare bones of the scene's morphology.  The next step will be to reconstruct these brief moments into a linear sequence to examine the camera's relation to the overall line.

Project 1c

Compositional Surfaces

NEW MATRIX IMAGES

 MATRIX PATTERN

Marc Angelil :: Inchoate

INCHOATE AN EXPERIMENT IN ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION

In the reading, Marc Angelil introduces the term Inchoate, meaning underdeveloped, into a dialogue discussing the prescribed implications of the teaching of architecture.  He categorizes the present approach as an architectural strategy of 'domination' based on three premises; a visual preoccupation of an aesthetic appearance, the non-collective "notion of the architect as the sole agent of the work," and the fixation on the 'money shot.'  To this, Angelil proposes a shift in the focus from the external condition to the internal constructs.  Architecture should not be based on precedents, but rather on the constructs and processes outside of its prescribed realm.  

[Sound familiar?  This is the same proposal as SHoP Architect's principle of Versioning and Alejandro Zaera-Polo's argument in Roller Coaster Construction.  It's like they are all reading each other's theories and reinterpreting them as their own.  It is interesting to note that all of these authors share the same foundation that architectural form need not stem from precedent architecture form, but it seems they abandon that logic when it comes to developing architectural theory.]

By the new model, architecture involves "a deployment of means rather than conceiving design in terms of predetermined ends," in other words, experimentation rather than action based on 'established certainties.'  This method operates on insecure ground because the end product and the processes to achieve it are unknown at the onset of design.  However, as a result, the design process is strengthened by intuitive decisions rather than sole operation on known truths.

SHoP Architects :: Versioning

VERSIONING: Evolutionary Techniques in Architecture

The opening paragraph of the article has many parallels to the previous article titled Roller Coaster Construction.  In said reading, Alejandro Zaera-Polo makes the argument that architectural design no longer needs to be based strictly on the re-interpretation of existing works, but could expand to local constructs and processes.  Similarly, SHoP Architects is proposing the design concept of Versioning, which permits "architects to think or practice across multiple disciplines, freely borrowing tactics from film, food, finance, fashion, economics, and politics for use in design."  The resulting architecture stems from the conditions of its context rather than from the architects' prescribed 'style.'  Although some semblance of style will inherently be evident, the driving force of design is left open to the found unique qualities of the site and of the dominant culture.  Manipulation of type is replaced by parametric configuration of particular design criterion.  As a result, the consequential design is far more adaptable to change in construction and cultural constructs.  Versioning thusly challenges the notion of blob architecture for blob architecture's sake, calling out the 'aesthetic object' as solely an image, and therefore no more suited to its condition than its Cartesian predecessors.  Instead, form and function should be consubstantial and part of the same formal expression.

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