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Lines as Architectural Thinking

2009; Routledge; Volume: 14; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/13264820903341605

1755-0475

Marco Frascari,

Architecture and Computational Design

Abstract Architecture stems from a sapient working together of writing, drawing, and construction lines. The critical study of genetic architectural representations by examination of the sedimentation of architectural materiality inscribed in weathered boards, papers and models develops the ability of architects to become architecturally conscious. Architectural lines are material, spatial, cultural and temporal occurrences of refined multi-sensorial and emotional understandings of architecture. Architectural lines create a graphesis , a course of actions based on factures by which architects actualize future and past architecture into representations. Architectural drawings must not be understood as visualizations of building, but as essential architectural factures. Leon Battista Alberti's term lineamenta carries embedded in itself the idea of facture since Alberti's understanding of lineamenta derives from the use of tracing lines, ropes, ribbons, strings or threads mostly made with flax fibres and used by the builder on construction sites during the facture of buildings. "Tota res aedificatoria lineamentis et structura constituta est." Leon Battista Alberti, De re aedificatoria Notes 1. Unfortunately, sapere and sapore are not anymore cognates in imaginative thinking. Virgil of Toulouse, grammarian of the 6th century, has beautifully shown the connection between sapere and sapore. Virgil of Toulouse, Virgilio Marone grammatico: Epitomi ed Epistole, ed. and trans. G. Polara, Naples: Liguori Editore, 1979. 2. Robin Evans, The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995. 3. Scientintically, adv. A burlesque nonce-word, formed by a blending of scientifically and tint. 1761 STERNE Tr. Shandy III. v, "He must have redden'd, pictorically and scientintically speaking, six whole tints and a half … above his natural colour." 4. Johanna Drucker, "Digital Ontologies: The Ideality of Form in/and Code Storage—or—Can Graphesis Challenge Mathesis?", Leonardo, 34, 2 (April 2001): 141–145. 5. David Summers, Real Spaces: World Art History and the Rise of Western Modernism, London: Phaidon, 2003. 6. Ernesto De Martino, Sud e magia, Milan: Feltrinelli, 2004. 7. Giuseppe Mazzotta, Cosmopoiesis: The Renaissance Experiment, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. 8. Nelson Goodman, Ways of Worldmaking, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1978. 9. Leon Battista Alberti, L'architettura di Leonbatista Alberti tradotta in lingua fiorentina da Cosimo Bartoli gentil'huomo & accademico fiorentino. Con la aggiunta de disegni. In Firenze: appresso Lorenzo Torrentino impressor ducale, 1550. 10. John Dee, The Mathematicall Praeface to the Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara (1570), New York: Science History Publications,1975, p. d.iiij. 11. Leon Battista Alberti, L'Architecture et Art de bien bastir du Seigneur Leon Baptiste Albert, Gentilhomme Florentin, divisée en dix livres, Traduicts de Latin en François, par deffunct Jan Martin, Parisien, nagueres Secretaire du Reverendissime Cardinal de Lenoncourt, A Paris: [Imprimé par R. Massellin, pour] J. Kerver, 1553. 12. In architectural terminology the Italian term progetto cannot be translated as "design", since it has broader and idiosyncratic phenomenological connotations. 13. Leon Battista Alberti, L'architettura, (De re aedificatoria), trans. Giovanni Orlandi, vol. 2, Milan: Edizioni Il Polifilo, 1966. 14. Leon Battista Alberti, On the Art of Building in Ten Books, trans. Joseph Rykwert, Neil Leach and Robert Tavernor, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988. 15. Alberti, On the Art of Building, p. 7 16. The Book of Ezekiel (from the Hebrew Bible) 40:3. 17. Palmira Cipriano, Templum, Rome: University La Sapienza, 1983, pp. 121–142. 18. Cipriano, Templum, p. 123. 19. Alberti, On the Art of Building, p. 219.