Extrapolating

T - 8 days

"Architecure continually informs and is formed by its modes of representation and construction, perhaps never more so than now, when digital media and emerging technologies are rapidly expanding what we conceive to be formally, spatially, and materially possible. In "Translations from Drawing to Building", Robin Evans expands on the inevitable separation architects encounter between drawing, the traditional medium of design, and building, the final outcome of their work. As he describes it, the great invention occurs in this gap. Like traditional drawing, digital production is a generative medium that comes with its own host of restraints and possibilities. Digital practices have the potential to narrow the gap between representation and building, affording a hypothetically seamless connection between design and making. And, as with all tools of production, the very techniques that open these investigations have their own sets of constraints and… innovation is born out of this fissure..."

- Lisa Iwamoto