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Year
Beyond the narrative: a workflow for 3D restitution of built heritage
2024
The Missing Camera or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Oblique Projection
2024
Relics of Electronic Hallucinations. Gazing at Early Computational Fluid Dynamics Drawings from Los Alamos Nuclear Research Center
2024
Architectural Analysis, Survey and Documentation of Built Heritage
2024
Rules, A Short History Of What We Live By, A book by Lorraine Daston
2024
Survey and characterisation of the archaeological landscape of Lovo
2024
Stoclet 1911 - Restitution
2024
Stoclet 1911 - Hypothesis
2024
TV Show: 3D Digitization and Built Heritage Preservation
2024
Drawing air: the evolution of the representation of air in architectural drawing from the industrial revolution to the present
2023
Architectural Analysis, Survey and Documentation of Built Heritage
2023
Analysis, Systems & Composition
2023
Code Tracing
2023
Maison du Peuple full scale experience on its original site
2023
From projection to building and vice versa
2023
Emergence of pre-digital algorithmic design
2023
Comparing Randomness
2023
Anthropic Units in Baroque Architecture, the Gallery of the Palazzo Spada and the Roman Palm
2023
Workshop Glyph
2023
Re-presentation as an analytical tool in Baroque Architecture
2022
Crossed Experimentations of Low-Altitude Surveys For The Detection Of Buried Structures
2022
Chamber Music Hall of Horta's Palais des Beaux-Arts: 3D Hypothesis
2022
Formal Analysis and Computer Process - Algorithmic Music II/II
2022
Misreading, once again...
2022
Perspectives on Dwelling : Architectural Anthropologies of Home
2022
Workshop (fig.22)
2022
Towards a multi-scale semantic characterization of the built heritage
2021
De l'incarnation de la protoarchitecture
2021
Formal Analysis and Computer Process - Algorithmic Music I/II
2021
Noise
2021
(Close) Reading Morphosis
2021
Jeu d’échelles / échelles du jeu
2021
Pohlke: One-Click Standard Orthographic and Oblique Projection Cameras
2021
Workshop (fig.)
2021
Perspectiva Virtualis
2021
Architectural Analysis, Survey and Documentation of Built Heritage
2020
Exploitation des numérisations pour l'analyse urbaine en contexte archéologique
2020
Formal Analysis and Computer Process - The Algorists
2020
Urban Planning Representation
2020
Projection built into Sketchpad III: origin of a critical field in computer graphics
2020
Architectural Analysis, Survey and Documentation of Built Heritage
2019
Exploitation de numérisations hétérogènes pour la représentation et l'analyse d'un site archéologique de grande échelle : Pachacamac 1532
2019
Relecture de vocabulaires d’architecture : apport de la complexité des représentations numériques dans la caractérisation de formes architecturales
2019
Victor Horta's Maison du Peuple 3D restitution hypothesis
2019
Architectural Analysis and Graphic Representation - Morphosis in the 1980s
2019
Formal Analysis and Computer Process - Medley II/II
2019
Histoires de Représentation
2019
Victor Horta's Maison du Peuple 3D restitution hypothesis
2019
Building Drawings : Decoding and Recoding the Graphic Projection Algorithm in Architectural Representation
2019
Places Royales Françaises. Réflexion d’une logique d’édification à travers une corrélation entre une analyse sémantique et un signal géométrique
2018

Espaces de processus/Espaces d'analyse. Description graphique de mécanismes géométriques compositionnels et représentationnels. Los Angeles dans les années 1980 : morceaux choisis

Author(s): Denis Derycke

English title:
Design Space/Analysis Space - Graphic Description of Compositional and Representational Devices. Chosen Pieces of Californian Postmodernity.

Supervisors: Jean-Louis Genard (†,ULB) & Axel Fisher (ULB)

Submitted on November 2017 - Public defense on January 2018
Jury members: Judith Le Maire (ULB), Eric Van Essche (ULB), Bernard Kormoss (Ulg), David Vanderburgh (UCL), Daniel Estevez (ENSA-Toulouse)

Abstract:
This doctoral thesis focuses on four unbuilt projects from the Los Angeles based architects Morphosis. Those four projects exist mainly through models and drawings representing them, but also through conceptual artifacts. They demonstrate a paroxysm of geometrical complexity as well as refinement in graphic production: two distinctive features which will grant to Morphosis international recognition by the end of the 1980s. Those four projects – Malibu, 6th Street, Reno & Was Houses – became iconic as a result of the important media coverage they received at that time, however Morphosis presented them without – or with very little – explanation. Therefore, the goal of this research is to decipher the compositional mechanisms and the graphic contrivances involved in those projects and in those conceptual artifacts, as they are complex and enigmatic. The resulting intention of such investigation is to disclose the principles at stake for the generation of Morphosis' sophisticated architecture. To do so, this research temporarily relieves Morphosis from its authorship status; it appropriates the objects of the corpus of study in order to interpret them, in order to extract some architectural principles that those projects could convey, but that Morphosis never made explicit. The means of inquiry of this research are mainly operational and based on the conventional tools of the architectural discipline: the projective systems, but augmented with contemporary graphic devices. Therefore, this research will describe unbuilt projects existing only in graphic representation, precisely by the use of graphic representation. The two main objectives are monographic and methodological. Regarding the monographic objectives, this research aims at making accessible and didactic some compositional processes based on systemic and ostentatious complexity that became the trademark of Morphosis. Such observations should allow an understanding of how those projects from the end of the 1980s, designed with traditional tools, anticipate the digital trend that will arise in the 1990s. Regarding the methodological objectives, this research aims at developing an investigation process which transposes the operational tools of architectural design to an analytical context. That investigation process is made of recurrent iterations borrowing some of the intuitive thinking of the architect-designer, but in an a retrospective approach, rigorous and based on referenced sources in order to build a new body of knowledge.

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