sp11 maa diagrams

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Christoph Niemann - ‘I Lego NY”

diagrams“...reductive machines for the compression of information”

[Van Berkel Bos]

! “As one moves from cartography to mapping, and from scan to diagram, concrete representational lines are displaced by lines! which are both precise and abstract without be in geometric, operating on the edges of signification , yet with a high degree of particularity. These are condensations of information and matter, often graphic materializations of the former, and formal rarefactions of the latter, that operate in a domain where expression and content, the semiotic and the physical, are merged into a synthetic whole.”

[Ila Berman]

Weizman + Segal

Weizman + Segal, from The Politics of Verticality

Weizman + Segal, Jewish Settlements in the West Bank

Noah Greer, Leah Marthinsen

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Colin Rowe

Stan Allen - Field Conditions Diagrams

Mozas + Fernandez Per, DBook

MVRDV, Meta City Data Town

MVRDV, Meta City Data Town

OMA, Seattle Library

OMA, Seattle Library

Alvar Aalto, vasebetween form and content

instrumental abstraction

“Diagrams are visual condensations of forces, processes and other phenomena (rigid and fluid, conceptual and physical) which resist the strictly imitative even when formally motivated, yet retain within themselves, the particularity of the information they embody and the !specificity of the complex events of their own genesis. As they move away from representation, they hover in the realm of primitive form even when precise, evading the reifications of figuration, but also those of stable geometries and direct causality.”

[Ila Berman]

Renee Chow - San Francisco fabric drawings

Stan Allen - Field Conditions Diagrams

Allen Chow

Juha Leiviska, Mannisto Church, Finnland

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the role of diagrams in architecturepost-rationalization vs. diagrammatic practice

Le Corbusier - Unite D`Habitation

Carlo Scarpa

Libeskind with G.Lab* by Gansam Architects & Partners , KT Tower , Seoul, Korea

“a diagram is therefore not a thing in itself, but a description of potential relationships among elements, not only an abstract model of the way things behave in the world, but a map of possible worlds.”

[Stan Allen]

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diagrams as instructions for actiontransformational strategies

t he flgure of t he work is not simply t he residue of t he diagram, one which can be read as coming from or leading to a certain outcome, but t he reinterpretat ion of t he diagram in order t o make it illegible, t hereby avoiding indexicalit y. The diagram does not dictate t he end product of t he process, it simply informs it .

Peter Eisenman

Aranda Lasch - ‘Packing’ diagrams

Uzbekistan, public space

diagram transformation

UN Studio

“diagrams are distinguished from indexes, icons, and symbols, their meaning is not fixed. “ the diagrammatic or abstract machine does not function to represent even something real, but rather constructs a real that is yet to come.””

[BosVanBerkel, quoting Deleuze] UN Studio, Moebius House

UN Studio, Moebius House

UN Studio, Mercedes Benz Museum, Stuttgart

UN Studio, Mercedes Benz Museum, Stuttgart

tools for analysiscuts, scans, and visualization methods

Studio 4 - classical scans

42 Studio 4 - edited plans

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comparison

Renee Chow - fabric structure, Pueblo Ribera, Charleston, San Francisco

Ila Berman, Mona ElKhafif: NOLA diagrams

Ila Berman, Mona ElKhafif: NOLA diagrams

Ila Berman, Mona ElKhafif: NOLA diagrams

Ila Berman, Mona ElKhafif: NOLA diagrams

Ila Berman, Mona ElKhafif: NOLA diagrams

AJ Cross - Mirador Analysis (MVRDV)

AJ Cross - Mirador Analysis (MVRDV)

Mona Hatoum

visualization choices-

the impact of method

Studio 4 - light diagrams

Studio 4 - circulation diagrams

photo collage Davis Hockney

Davis Hockney

Gordon Matta-Clark

Gordon Matta-Clark

Gordon Matta-Clark

Teddy Cruz

Teddy Cruz

Enric Miralles

Enric Miralles

Enric Miralles

Frank Dresme