![Filip Dujardin, Untitled, 2009. [Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; © Filip Dujardin]](https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/i6/i61lnwlvhqscq3vx.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat "Filip Dujardin, Untitled, 2009. [Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; © Filip Dujardin]")
Slowly it dawned on me that this was not a photograph of a real building but a total digital fabrication. I was shocked, not in a moralistic way but, rather, with amazement at the masterful deception and amused pique at being fooled. — Places Journal
The technologies of representing architecture have advanced steadily over the years, from drawing to photography to digital rendering — and have lately taken a new leap.
On Places, Belmont Freeman argues, "the crafts of architectural rendering and photography have now merged into a common activity of digital image-making — so completely that one can conceive a work of architecture and produce a 'photograph' of it without having to go through the expensive, tedious and corrupting intermediate step of actually building the building. Welcome to the world of architectural photography without architecture."
He discusses the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibitions "After Photoshop: Manipulated Photography in the Digital Age" and "Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop"; the MoMA exhibition "9 + 1 Ways of Being Political: 50 Years of Political Stances in Architecture and Urban Design," and recent books of photography by Frédéric Chauban and Ezra Stoller.
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Almost. Drawing room criticism, .Where is my smoking jacket and pipe? The reviewer was in turn: "shocked", "impelled", particularly fascinated" and felt it was a "tonic" seeing the photographs in 'thrilling equipoise". I suppose when you merge objectivity and subjective impressions you get this style of writing, detached yet personal. Almost a parody, almost.
Hold on ... i feel a 'thrill' coming.
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Very cool.
I kept looking at it. Actually, if there was a "clip angle" of sorts, this sort of thing could have been constructable. But it would have to be one mean angle. And it couldn't be in a seismic area. Also, such an angle would interfere with the clean and unobtrusive glazing in the tower, in front of the staircase.
Looks like a great thesis at a school that turns the other cheek on constructability. (Why does constructability always show up in red? Has this not be absorbed into our vocabulary, the same way that irregardless has?)
Do you remember this Artist: El Lissitzky
Completion Date: 1925
Style: Constructivism
Genre: design
http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/el-lissitzky/iron-in-clouds-for-strastnoy-boulevard-1925
Yes this is very well known design by Lissitzky. Proboaby the inspiration for the photo-montage. Originally Lissitzky's proposal was a for a series of these sky-hooks to surround Moscow. Published in Lissitzky's book Architecture for World Revolution , a survey of Avant Garde Russian Architecture.
I mean this is a recycled idea...
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