The Active Image: Architecture and Engineering in the Age of Modeling (Philosophy of Engineering and Technology Book 28)

The “active Image” Refers To The Operative Nature Of Images, Thus Capturing The Vast Array Of “actions” That Images Perform. This Volume Features Essays That Present A New Approach To Image Theory. It Explores The Many Ways Images Become Active In Architecture And Engineering Design Processes And How, In The Age Of Computer-based Modeling, Images Play An Indispensable Role. The Contributors Examine Different Types Of Images, Be They Pictures, Sketches, Renderings, Maps, Plans, And Photographs; Be They Analog Or Digital, Planar Or Three-dimensional, Ephemeral, Realistic Or Imaginary. Their Essays Investigate How Images Serve As Means Of Representing, As Tools For Thinking And Reasoning, As Ways Of Imagining The Inexistent, As Means Of Communicating And Conveying Information And How Images May Also Perform Functions And Have An Agency In Their Own. The Essays Discuss The Role Of Images From The Perspective Of Philosophy, Theory And History Of Architecture, History Of Science, Media Theory, Cognitive Sciences, Design Studies, And Visual Studies, Offering A Multidisciplinary Approach To Imagery And Showing The Various Methodologies And Interpretations In Current Research. In Addition, They Offer Valuable Insight To Better Understand How Images Operate And Function In The Arts And Sciences In General. Points Of Departure: Notes Toward A Reversible History Of Architectural Visualization / Reinhold Martin -- Architecture And The Structured Image: Software Simulations As Infrastructures For Building Production / Daniel Cardoso Llach -- Architectural Drawings As Symbols: A Goodmanian Account Of Epistemic Practices In The Design Process / Remei Capdevila-werning -- Manual Sketching: Why Is It Still Relevant? / Gabriela Goldschmidt -- Operative Manufacts: Gestures As Embodied Sketches In The Early Stages Of The Design Process / Irene Mittelberg, Thomas H. Schmitz, And Hannah Groninger -- The Role Of The Image In Digital Design: Processing The Image Versus Imaging The Process / Rivka Oxman -- Visualization Techniques And Computational Design Strategies: Reflecting On The Milieu And Agency Of Digital Tools In 1990s Architecture / Nathalie Bredella -- People-centered Visuospatial Cognition: Next-generation Architectural Design Systems And Their Role In Design Conception, Computing, And Communication / Mehul Bhatt And Carl Schultz -- License To Explore: How Images Work In Simulation Modeling / Johannes Lenhard -- On Fuzziness And Relationships: Abstraction And Illustrative Visualization In Snow Avalanche Control Planning / Doris Hallama -- Epilogue: The Rise Of Imagery In The Age Of Modeling Sabine Ammon. Sabine Ammon, Remei Capdevila-werning, Editors. Front Matter....Pages i-x Points of Departure: Notes Toward a Reversible History of Architectural Visualization....Pages 1-21 Architecture and the Structured Image: Software Simulations as Infrastructures for Building Production....Pages 23-52 Architectural Drawings as Symbols: A Goodmanian Account of Epistemic Practices in the Design Process....Pages 53-76 Manual Sketching: Why Is It Still Relevant?....Pages 77-97 Operative Manufacts: Gestures as Embodied Sketches in the Early Stages of the Design Process....Pages 99-131 The Role of the Image in Digital Design: Processing the Image Versus Imaging the Process....Pages 133-155 Visualization Techniques and Computational Design Strategies: Reflecting on the Milieu and Agency of Digital Tools in 1990s Architecture....Pages 157-176 Image-Based Epistemic Strategies in Modeling: Designing Architecture After the Digital Turn....Pages 177-205 People-Centered Visuospatial Cognition: Next-Generation Architectural Design Systems and Their Role in Design Conception, Computing, and Communication....Pages 207-232 License to Explore: How Images Work in Simulation Modeling....Pages 233-254 On Fuzziness and Relationships: Abstraction and Illustrative Visualization in Snow Avalanche Control Planning....Pages 255-285 Epilogue: The Rise of Imagery in the Age of Modeling....Pages 287-312 Back Matter....Pages 313-317