"Architecture Transformed" – Architectural processes in the digital image space

建筑的生产和概念不仅受到技术构造方面的影响，而且受到其视觉表现的影响。建筑设计已经需要不同视觉过程的手段。从最初的概念草图，到在比赛中以模型为基础的展示，再到为沟通和营销目的而设计的展示，从绘图到建立模型和摄影，视觉建模和图像表现的方法一直被使用。自20世纪80年代以来，随着建筑设计和视觉表现（计算机辅助设计）的数字技术的出现，发生了深远的变化，导致技术设计和视觉再现（计算机渲染到虚拟摄影）联系在一起的全新可能性。因此，数字规划过程允许连续生产可视化，不同的视角和有效的外观设计，以满足各种各样的目的和场合。在设计的早期阶段，逼真的外观呈现已经成为可能；与此同时，现代计算机的计算能力使新的结构看起来是可行的，由此自由形成的结构的概念可以由外观来决定，而不是由基本的构造条件来决定，似乎已经从仅仅是幻想和幻想的领域中解放出来。该项目对从模拟到数字规划和显示格式方法过渡阶段（即1980年至2000年）的设计和可视化中概述的这些基本过程相关关系进行了调查。在对新工具及其视觉产品（图像）的使用和应用的示范研究中，目的是确定“数字图像”如何从艺术史-媒体-批判的角度改变建筑的概念和生产，另一方面，从建筑和建筑图像生产的生产美学角度来看。在两个工作场所（Marburg和Cottbus），在著名的建筑期刊上进行了关于视觉表现历史的研究，并对“数字建筑”的各个方面进行了讨论，包括所谓的blob建筑的例子。另一方面，研究了CAD程序的开发和使用，以探索它们生产数字建筑图像的可能性。最后，在此基础上，将考虑“数字建筑”在今天是否可以或必须被谈论，以及“数字图像”在这个可能的新建筑概念中有什么共同之处。

The production and conception of architecture are not only shaped by the technical-constructive aspect but also by their visual representation. Building design already requires the means of different visual processes. From the initial concept as a sketch through the model-based presentation in a competition, to the designed representation for communication and marketing purposes, methods of visual modelling and pictorial representation have always been used - from the drawing to the built model and photography. Since the 1980s, with digital technologies for the design and visual representation of architecture (computer-aided design), far-reaching changes have occurred, resulting in fundamentally new possibilities for linking technical design and visual reproduction (computer rendering to virtual photography). Thus, digital planning processes allow a continuous production of visualisations, different perspectives and effective designs of the appearance for the widest variety of purposes and occasions. Realistic looking representations become possible already in the early phases of the design; at the same time, the computational capacities of modern computers make new constructions seem realisable, whereby the conception of freely formed structures can be determined by appearance and not by elemental tectonic conditions, seeming to have been liberated from the realm of the merely fantastic and the visionary.This project undertakes an investigation of these essentially process-related relationships outlined here in design and visualisation during the transition phase from analogue to digital planning and display format methods - i.e. between 1980 and the 2000s. In exemplary studies on the use and application of the new tools and their visual products (images), the aim is to determine how the ‘digital image' has changed the concept and production of architecture from an art-historical-media-critical perspective, on the one hand, and from the production-aesthetic point of view of architectural and architectural image production, on the other. At two workplaces (Marburg and Cottbus), studies on the history of visual representation are carried out in prominent architectural journals and the discussion of "digital architecture" in its various facets is examined, including the example of so-called blob architecture. On the other hand, the development and use of CAD programs is examined in order to explore their possibilities for the production of digital architectural images. Finally, on this basis, consideration will be made as to whether and to what extent ‘digital architecture' can or must be spoken of today and what share the ‘digital image' has in this possibly new concept of architecture.