Christoph Niemann - ‘I Lego NY”

diagrams
“...reductive machines for the compression of information”
[Van Berkel Bos]
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! “As one moves from cartography to mapping, and from scan to diagram,
concrete representational lines are displaced by lines! which are both precise
and abstract without be in geometric, operating on the edges of signification ,
yet with a high degree of particularity. These are condensations of information
and matter, often graphic materializations of the former, and formal
rarefactions of the latter, that operate in a domain where expression and
content, the semiotic and the physical, are merged into a synthetic whole.”
[Ila Berman]
Weizman + Segal
Weizman + Segal, from The Politics of Verticality
Weizman + Segal, Jewish Settlements in the West Bank
Noah Greer, Leah Marthinsen
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Colin Rowe
Stan Allen - Field Conditions Diagrams
Mozas + Fernandez Per, DBook
MVRDV, Meta City Data Town
MVRDV, Meta City Data Town
OMA, Seattle Library
OMA, Seattle Library
 Alvar Aalto, vase
between form and content
instrumental abstraction
“Diagrams are visual condensations of forces, processes and other phenomena (rigid and
fluid, conceptual and physical) which resist the strictly imitative even when formally
motivated, yet retain within themselves, the particularity of the information they embody
and the ! specificity of the complex events of their own genesis. As they move away from
representation, they hover in the realm of primitive form even when precise, evading the
reifications of figuration, but also those of stable geometries and direct causality.”
[Ila Berman]
Renee Chow - San Francisco fabric drawings
Stan Allen - Field Conditions Diagrams
Allen Chow

Juha Leiviska, Mannisto Church, Finnland

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 Le Corbusier - Unite D`Habitation
the role of diagrams in architecture
post-rationalization vs. diagrammatic practice
Carlo Scarpa
Libeskind with G.Lab* by Gansam Architects & Partners , KT Tower , Seoul, Korea
“a diagram is therefore not a thing in itself, but a description of
potential relationships among elements, not only an abstract model
of the way things behave in the world, but a map of possible
worlds.”
[Stan Allen]
t he flgure of t he work is not simply t he residue of t he diagram, one which can be read as coming from or leading t o a cert ain out come,
but t he reint erpret at ion of t he diagram in order t o make it illegible, t hereby avoiding indexicalit y. The diagram does not dict at e t he end
product of t he process, it simply informs it .
Pet er Eisenman

Aranda Lasch - ‘Packing’ diagrams

diagrams as instructions for action

transformational strategies

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Uzbekistan, public space
diagram transformation
UN Studio
“diagrams are distinguished from indexes, icons, and symbols, their
meaning is not fixed. “ the diagrammatic or abstract machine does
not function to represent even something real, but rather constructs
a real that is yet to come.””
[BosVanBerkel, quoting Deleuze] UN Studio, Moebius House
UN Studio, Moebius House
UN Studio, Mercedes Benz Museum, Stuttgart
UN Studio, Mercedes Benz Museum, Stuttgart
 tools for analysis
cuts, scans, and visualization methods
Studio 4 - classical scans
42 Studio 4 - edited plans
 Renee Chow - fabric structure, Pueblo Ribera, Charleston, San Francisco

comparison

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Ila Berman, Mona ElKhafif: NOLA diagrams
Ila Berman, Mona ElKhafif: NOLA diagrams
Ila Berman, Mona ElKhafif: NOLA diagrams
Ila Berman, Mona ElKhafif: NOLA diagrams
Ila Berman, Mona ElKhafif: NOLA diagrams
AJ Cross - Mirador Analysis (MVRDV)
AJ Cross - Mirador Analysis (MVRDV)
 Mona Hatoum

visualization choices
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the impact of method
Studio 4 - light diagrams
Studio 4 - circulation diagrams
 Davis Hockney
photo collage
Davis Hockney
Gordon Matta-Clark
Gordon Matta-Clark
Gordon Matta-Clark
Teddy Cruz
Teddy Cruz
Enric Miralles
Enric Miralles
Enric Miralles
Frank Dresme