A journey to the center of knowledge
The line and the movement
A line, in its most pure dimension, is a track imagined, it is a mental concept which captures and displays thoughts and things on paper. In Naturalis Historia, Plinio il Vecchio discusses the dispute between two painters, Apelle and Protogene, concerning the idea that, above all, a drawing is a line generated by the movement […]
Of morphogenetic images. Five notes between science, art and architecture
The repertoire of images derived from the formation of morphogenetic processes has been widely investigated in any scientific and humanistic study sector: from the pioneering kinetic art experiences, programmed art and generative art of the 60s and 70s, to digital spatiality and digital utopian architecture projects or morphogenetic architecture, to the 90s or recent experience, […]
Drawing: creative expression
Understanding how the creative thought spreads is crucial in affecting the development of society. The path, in which such a thought is generated is ideation, which relies profoundly on an essential element: reflection. In reflection it is crucial to have an effective and practical manipulation, and having different interpretations rather than a unique solution. The […]
Illustrations and associative logic. Short circuits between images of science, art and architecture
Although the main purpose of scientific illustrations is to facilitate the sharing of information between operators working in environments in which they are widely understood, drawings of conceptual models may also be used in other fields, often with the consequence of generating new, unexpected developments. The power of images to communicate ideas other than the […]
Topological fluid architecture: is it really architecture?
Topological architecture and fluid architecture are a reality of our times. New digital technologies and new construction techniques, combined with the use of new architectural shapes derived from the latest studies of modern and contemporary mathematics, have profoundly changed the idea of architecture. There always has been an important relationship between mathematics and architecture, from […]
Images in World 2.0 / Instructions for use
In the essays’ collection The Uses of Images. Studies in the Social Function of Art and Visual Communication (1999), Ernst Gombrich states that images demand in Western society is so significant that it is possible to consider a family without a television, like lacking something. Addressing his thoughts to fundamental requirements on the basis of […]
Science and art between time and place: six points of view
The representation of space is not a mental preconceived form. One must to consider it as a whole of technical, logical and intellectual processes that progress, not very quickly, as the historical and cultural contexts of a society change. Since the Renaissance to the Nineteenth century the representation of architectonic space has crossed fundamental steps, […]
For a new un-contemporariness
The inescapable condition of “universal computerization” (or, if you prefer, “Global”) requires rapid adjustments and, in their way, fierce. The praise of the hand pronounced so many decades ago by Henri Focillon may today be for many pathetic. Architecture translates into a craft that can aspire to art without passing for a sheet of paper, […]
The extreme image
The representation of “institution” as a translation of the meaning of a building in the city in a lasting, collective, linked to the memory of places and events that took place in their architectural shape has now almost disappeared. In fact, the first function of architecture is currently recognized as a “new functionalism” re-read in […]