1st Edition

Experiential Visualization in Architectural Design Media How It Actually Works

By Vincent B. Canizaro Copyright 2024
202 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Experimental Visualization in Architectural Design Media: How It Actually Works is a theoretical, practical, and interdisciplinary account of the tools used by architects and designers. The book focuses on the how these tools influence their ability to envision and craft the future experiential reality of buildings and environments. The book is structured around two parallel sets of questions.... Read more

List of figures

Preface

Acknowledgments                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

01. Mind the Gap: On the Uneasy Partnership between Representation and Experience

02. What has Been Said Before

03. Desk and Screen: Media in Architectural Design

04. Dig It: Media and Mediation

05. Do You Have the Right Tool?:Technology & Mediation

06. Architects & Tools: Design Media over Time

07. Disappearing into the Work: Technologies of Perception

08. Making Relations: Representation and Media

09. Place, Experience, and Atmosphere in Architectural Design

10. Design with Hand and Eye: Drawing

11. Show it in Space: Modeling

12. The Infinite Spaces: Digital Design Tools

13. Design with Hand, Eye, and a Chop-Saw: Design-Build

14 Ways of Working that Favor Experiential Understanding

15. Six Ways Towards Experiential Visualization

Index

Biography

Vincent B. Canizaro is an Associate Professor at The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA whose overall focus is design in connection to place. He teaches in the graduate program and publishes on the issues of regionalism and environmental architecture, sustainability, community-oriented design, design media, and site-specific design theory. His writing and research have been published in regional, national, and international venues and have led to local and international symposia. As an editor with the Journal of Architectural Education, he co-edited two special issues on “Architecture and Landscape” and “Sustainable Architecture”. He has published Architectural Regionalism and contributed chapters to Pragmatic Sustainability, the Routledge Companion to Architectural History, and the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World. He has co-curated art and architectural exhibits and won awards for both design and publications. He is a registered architect in Massachusetts and has practiced in Austin, Boston, Rhode Island, and California.