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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
Survey and characterisation of the archaeological landscape of Lovo
2024
Stoclet 1911 - Restitution
2024
Stoclet 1911 - Hypothesis
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
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
Formal Analysis and Computer Process - Algorithmic Music II/II
2022
Misreading, once again...
2022
Perspectives on Dwelling : Architectural Anthropologies of Home
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
(Close) Reading Morphosis
2021
Workshop (fig.)
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
Architectural Analysis and Graphic Representation - Morphosis in the 1980s
2019
[x] 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
Virtual Systems – Actual Objects: Rendition of Morphosis ' Compositional Principles in the mid 1980s
2018
Formal Analysis and Computer Process - Medley I/II
2018
Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand’s Clockwork
2018
Le squelette de la Maison du Peuple : hypothèse de restitution 3D
2017
Espaces de processus/Espaces d'analyse. Description graphique de mécanismes géométriques compositionnels et représentationnels. Los Angeles dans les années 1980 : morceaux choisis
2017
Caractérisation de formes architecturales. Une approche expérimentale intégrant complexité et intelligibilité des représentations numériques
2016
Study and Rendition of Jean-Baptiste Hourlier's projection drawings
2016
Architectural Analysis & Computer Process IV
2016
Morphosis Drawings and Models in the Mid 1980s: Graphic Description of Graphic Thinking
2016
Architectural Analysis & Computer Process III
2015
Immeuble Bessonneau à Casablanca - Hypothèse de restitution de l’état originel
2015

Formal Analysis and Computer Process - Medley II/II

[2019] [Master Studio] [Drawing] [Model] [Code]
Author(s): Denis Derycke, Michel Lefèvre, Julien Rippinger, Uri Wegman

Teaching unit ARCH-P7123 - Master 1 & 2
Teachers: Denis Derycke (coordinator), Michel Lefèvre, Julien Rippinger
Invited lecturer: Uri Wegman

The Formal Analysis and Computer Process module considers architectural composition as an operation primarily based on principles that are inherent to architecture itself, devoid of any form of contextualization, function or ideological content. It assumes that the purpose of architecture mainly lies in the shapes and spaces through which architecture reveals itself, as well as in the graphic means – drawings and models – through which architecture is designed, which are often its only mode of existence. In such an approach, the design is no longer meant to produce a concrete output; the creation of exploratory composition processes becomes an end in itself.

In this 12 week exercise, students investigate a given artwork or set of artworks from the same artist. The objects of study are from the fields of painting, sculpture, music or architecture, and their initial composition methods are related to systemic processes. Students are asked to extract formal vocabulary and recurrent composition rules out of their object of study. Then, they translate and interpret those rules with parametric computer programming, so as to generate random (parametric) architectural configurations that match their initial analysis. In the end, they proceed to an architectural rendition of the work of art they previously analyzed, within the space of a 10 cm cube. To do so, they use only the following graphic means: axonometric projections and 3D printing.

2019-2020 theme
Medley of artists, architects, and composers using systems to generate their creations: Brian Eno, Georg Nees, Sol Lewitt, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Cage, Manfred Mohr, Steve Reich, Philip Glass.

Featured projects:

Sol Lewitt, Serial Projet n°1 (1966)
Ayman Ghazali | Source Code

Brian Eno, Ambient 1 : Music for Airports (1978)
Charles Preham & Gabriel Chatel | Source Code

Georg Nees, Gravel Stones (1966)
Adrien Dumont & Johan Metzger | Source Code

Johann Sebastian Bach, The Art of the Fugue (circa 1740)
Julia Barnoin & Guillaume Charinet | Source Code