Rendering as Critical Reflection: On the visual production of architecture in China and the West
Abstract:
This thesis reflects on our thoughts and actions towards the proliferation and use of photorealistic rendering by the architectural profession in China and the West, both of which actively engage in this form of image making to various degrees with both positive and negative reception. As architects do not have the privilege of working directly on the subject of their work, drawings as mediators become critical to the intellectual identity of the profession as a whole but the way we speak of images themselves do not reflect this level of importance. If the standardization of parallel line projection could be understood as symbolic of the architectural values of building, distinguishing architecture from all other visual professions, then what architectural values does the standardization of photorealism speak to?
The examining committee is as follows:
Supervisor:
Adrian
Blackwell
Reader:
Val
Rynnimeri
Internal-external
committee
member:
Tracey
Winton
External
committee
member:
Doreen
Bernath
The
defence
examination
will
take
place:
Thursday,
August 5,
2021,
12:30pm
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.