11400 Digital Theory
6cpThere are course requisites for this subject. See access conditions.
Postgraduate
Description
This subject consists of an intensive study of the relationship between architectural theory and the realm of digital creation. It involves a group-based intensive study within a session and examines specific topics within the theory of digital design. The subject investigates issues including the relationship between the history of drawing and the development of computer-based design schemes, and the question of the relationship between the diagram as a computer generated series of lines and its subsequent connection to forms of material realisation. It also covers a theoretical account of central elements of the design course, namely the relationship between geometry and materials; the relationship between the digital and analogue models; and the conceptualisation of objects and artefacts as a surface condition. The digital has necessitated a rethinking of the terminology central to architecture, e.g. line, plane, surface.
Typical availability
Spring session, City campus
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