31 October 2017

Week Nine:

1) Allen writes, "a representational drawing that tries to simulate [light, shadow, reflections, etc.] will always fall short," but notation is better able to anticipate the experience of the real (45). Do you agree with this, or can representational drawing accurately portray these effects?

2) Allen mention that architectural drawings are a combination of autographic and allographic. Does this always have to be the case or are there times when an architectural drawing can be only one of these, or more one than the other?

3) "Drawings become notations precisely at the moment in which numerical or textural information is added" (46). Do architectural drawings need text to be added to be understood? Are there examples of architectural drawings that don't need notation to be effective?

4) Can you think of examples of when diagrams are more useful than notations, or vice versa?

5) "A diagram architecture is part of a new sensibility characterized by a lack of interest in critique or the production of meaning, preferring instead immediacy, simple forms, direct accommodation of program, and the pleasures of the literal" (53). Are there times when this type of architecture is more effective or beneficial?

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