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Questions of representation: the poetic origin of architecture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2006

Alberto Pérez-Gómez
Affiliation:
McGill University Macdonald-Harrington Building 815 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec H3A 2K6 Canadaalberto.perez-gomez@mcgill.ca

Abstract

Since the Renaissance, descriptive geometry has become a generative architectural idea and a systematic representation of production. CAD’s precision is the apotheosis of this trajectory.

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history
Copyright
2005 Cambridge University Press

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