Digital Shadow

While architects sometimes lament the turn to digital representation and its affect on the quality of design, it is not clear that digital tools preclude architectural thinking anymore than descriptive geometry did a hundred years ago. This paper considers whether digital tools might help activate poetic imaginations in the same way that constructing and rendering shadows did in the past. Just as architects needed to look beyond the allure of mathematical puzzles in descriptive geometry, architects today can use digital simulation of light effects to understand architectural ideas more fully. This paper describes an intentional process of early instruction in architectural representation that can help set this way of thinking in motion.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.106.24

Volume Editors
Amir Ameri & Rebecca O'Neal Dagg

ISBN
978-1-944214-15-9