Description
This course will interrogate the role of the image within the context of architectural production and representation today. It’s estimated that approximately 14.6 trillion photographs were taken around the world in 2017, not to mention the countless renders and other visual output. In a world dominated by the screen (whether in your hand or on your table), we are at a point in time where we are simply drowning in images. Scrolling through feeds, flipping through books, rendering scenes, we are authors and consumers of thousands of images per day. And as architects in this context, we tend to follow an often arbitrary set of conventions; we shoot first, think later as we document spaces in their pristine state, empty of stuff, devoid of inhabitation, while we render on a white or black background; producing images that all begin to look this same. In the space of this class, however, students will be given the opportunity to slow that trajectory down and work on a single model and large