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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

Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand - Representation as Instrument

Author(s): Julien Rippinger

Supervisor: Denis Derycke
Submitted on September 2015

Original Title: Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand et la représentation comme instrument

Abstract:
The mater thesis takes a contemporary look at the means of representation used by the architect-teacher Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (1760-1834) at the École Polytechnique. It is an in-depth study of the architectural drawings of the Parisian master as a vehicle and instrument for the implementation of his theories. Durand's entire research aimed to develop and teach the step-by-step process in the composition of any project, which is a mechanism of composition involving a series of graphic operations to create a building based on a given program. Our approach was that Durand's work remains a source of relevant paradigms, and his exploration contributes to a reflection on parametric practice in architecture. According to our hypothesis, Durand's composition mechanism can now be understood, from a certain perspective, as an archaic application of parametric operations. The first part of the research focuses on the study of Durand's overall contribution to the École Polytechnique, from the "Recueil et Parallèle" of 1801 to the "Nouveau Précis des Leçons d’Architecture" of 1813, supplemented by the "Partie Graphique des Cours d’Architecture" in 1821. The examination of the instrumentalization carried out by Durand involves analyzing texts and, particularly, the plates to understand how the means of representation could transform the perception of architectural objects and ultimately activate his composition mechanism. By drawing on theoretical and historical references in the study of the graphic characteristics of the plates, it was possible to identify the use of drawing to rationalize, standardize, specify, manipulate, and intensify the architectural mechanism. The second part of the research involves an experimental implementation of the step-by-step process taught by Durand since 1821 using contemporary computer methods. The digital procedural model developed to implement the composition mechanism is based on encoding a series of precise operations applied to variables using the Python programming language. By calling graphic primitives, the resulting script generates visible results in Blender, a 3D modelling software. The goal is twofold: to explore the method itself, pushing it to extremes that Durand may not have dared to imagine, and to provide a historical reference that can question certain implications of current parametric applications in architecture. One significant implication raised by this research concerns the direct consequence of the instrumentalization of representation, which is described as essential to the parametric approach. Where drawing once held philosophical, mythical, and belief-based significance, a self-referential, scientific, and exclusively operational framework has now been established. The development of digital architecture, especially algorithmic approaches, has further emphasized this trend.