Posted by Paul Malo on March 28, 2002 at 17:48:23:In Reply to: ArchWeek - Parisian Media Merge posted by Kevin Matthews on March 27, 2002 at 22:11:56:
Your article is particularly interesting, since we are similarly evolving a computer modus operandi in our school. There seems to be a digital sub-culture (mostly among students) that values complexity and technique, often with the trees obscuring the forest. They're not "trees," of course, but mechanistic razzmatazz of the DeCon (or at least constructivist) sort. Layers of complex stuff glued onto buildings.
This contrasts with our school's "less-is-more" sub-culture that values minimal presentations of spare forms, elegant in adroit simplicty, particularly if the presentation is done with apparent ease by hand, with a calligraphic finesse or deftly casual areas of tone (visualize Mies's perspective sketches).
Sometimes it seems we have several schools under one roof-- more than two, since we even have a classical studio doing stunning color presentations with meticulous washes. How refreshing to see color once again!
You may guess my favored mode. Last semester a student wanted to use the computer to generate some interior studies of his project. I suggesting that he could do some one-point perspectives in a fraction of the time it would take to input the data, but he was motivated to use the computer. He proudly brought in some neat wire drawings--absolutely correct but dead. OK, I suggest, now trace them over, freehand. He finally came up with a presentation that had some life--the mark of the human hand.
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