Paradigms in the Poché

The identification of potential paradigmatic examples within the history of representation is a crucial responsibility for architectural pedagogy, as one of the primary manners in which new architects are disciplined into “the discipline” is through representation. To continue to preach specific mediations based on outmoded conventions betrays a conservatism ignorant to the continual development of culture. At the same time, to jettison representational traditions simply because of a new technology is naive and irresponsible. More to the point, it is misplaced to equate a paradigm with a convention. Conventions are apparatuses; conjunctions of tools, codes, techniques, methods of interpretation, technologies, styles, social hierarchies, economies of access, etc. Paradigms of representation use apparatuses, but what matters more is when these changes alter aesthetic and conceptual paradigms. As architectural representation moves more and more into digital mediation, it is tantamount that we understand that the digital is not the wholesale paradigm shift some have preached or feared. What seems more apt, is that some conventions remain steady, some are discarded, and still others enter into strange lands where we are only beginning to understand what may be a paradigmatic transformation.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.107.42

Volume Editors
Amy Kulper, Grace La & Jeremy Ficca

ISBN
978-1-944214-21-0