AArchitecture 42 Call for Submissions: Extended Brief

AArchitecture 42

Firmament

Extended Brief

“Whatever looks natural, must not be factual.”

– Hito Steyerl

The firmament is held by two vaults. Cosmas Indicopleustes

The sun, planets and angels and the firmament. 1475

Man as the “microcosm� in the centre of the celestial spheres. 13th century

St. Marco: South Cupola, West Narthex, 1215–35

The firmament is pushed back around the solar system.

Depiction of Copernicus in the age of enlightenment

What swims in the waters above?

The projection of the sky onto a sphere of indefinite radius

The hdri is a celestial sphere

“Precise photographic fragments seamlessly morph together to give the bling of plausibility to virtual objects and environments.�

Some Reasons for Travelling to Italy, Peter Wilson

“A mechanic assemblage and an assemblage of enunciation.�

Techniques of the Observer, Jonathan Crary

“Digitalisation as a process of re-materialisation of the image” – Harun Farocki

Residential Compositions: Tanikawa House, Kazuo Shinohara

The artist, the unwritten and the viewer (UCLA Department of Art Lectures: Jeff Wall)

72 computer-generated views of the spherical image

Preempting photogrammetry – the double exposure in the photo stream

The Light Cage/Stage is a low resolution spherical screen. It is an analogue hdri device.

The origin of virtual reality lies in the theatre of cruelty

A magician balancing a glass sphere

A magician in a glass sphere

Mark and his wife

Victorian objects of fascination, some housed mechanical devices, others scenes

A wax cross

A scaled graveyard with their hair

Process drawings of Anna Viebrock

Ingeborg Strobl documenting the Stadthallenbad in advance of the planned refurbishment.

Ingeborg Strobl documenting the Stadthallenbad in advance of the planned refurbishment.

“Finding the advantages of blankness, becoming connoisseurs of the colour variations in the fluorescent lighting of an office building just before sunset.”

– Rem Koolhaas

“Can the bland be amplified” – Rem Koolhaas

The subtleties of white in an hdri – becoming connoisseurs of the colour variations in fluorescent lighting.

Firmament

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AArchitecture 42

Edited by students at the Architectural Association

Extended Brief