Ever since the beginnings of the moving picture in the late nineteenth century, architecture and film have shared an analogue scenery, the set. Here, the worlds that were dreamed of were transformed parallel to the ever advancing and unstoppable progress in design and visualization techniques. It is only natural that the introduction of this very software from film and animation into architecture has made languages merge as well – what was once seen in the cinema as science fiction is today actual, built reality, or at least 3D modelled fact.
Moreover, imaging processes from medicine and the military, from MRT to laser scanning, have for decades been opening up new possi¬bilities of stock taking, of investigation and ultimately also of design. ADATO is interested in the potentials of the moving picture, or the perspective of the machinic gaze for architectural production.
