Study Architecture 
ProPEL 
Author(s): Sergio Duran
The advent of new technologies for the presentation of architecture inherently demands a reexamination of the traditional notions of architectural representation.The language of architecture by way of which we must discern ideas about construction, complex geometry, methodology, socio-environmental concerns and even politics, is undergoing a series of changes that will affect the way in which we are able to understand the discipline itself.Construction methods for a building are communicated by way of representations long since maintained by a traditional trade language. This language, albeit effectual, was rooted in the trappings of trade secrecy and the power of knowledge.For the builder, documentation for the purpose of representing practical building construction methods become flattened two dimensional orthographic abstractions of a three dimensional reality and are devoid of time critical assembly factors of the fourth dimension. For the client, the critic or the historian, theoretical or even ideological aspects of architecture are still communicated in the form of text. Today, the tools used to communicate complex ideas are not only more powerful and sophisticated, they can also be universally understood because they use established signifiers and a commonly understood language.New technologies such as computer graphics, animation and the Internet can facilitate the use of an established and tested communications language in mediums such as Film and Television.This paper begins to explore these possibilities by way of an experimental design studio in which graduate level students are asked to explore film techniques for the representation of their designs.
Volume Editors
Marilys R. Nepomechie & Robert Gonzalez
ISBN
0-935502-54-8
