i2i media lab.

논문 초록 (Abstract)

The second half of the last century witnessed an explosive interest in architectural media using digital technologies and its corresponding changes in ways of preferring and using architectural media. Specifically, several innovative architects specializing in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) systems have gradually detached the role of conceptual and exemplificational representation from architectural drawing, and then transferred it to digital diagram. However, there were little research focusing on the change in architectural media. Motivated by this observation, this study examines the new role of diagram as an architectural medium and architects’ attitudes towards it in CAD systems, and moreover analyzes the conditions and meanings of shifting from postmodern drawing to digital diagram. First, after an extensive literature review, this study found that the role of digital diagram has been not just changed and fixed, but reorganized and expanded, and thereby it has replaced the role of drawing in postmodern ways of conceptualizing architecture. Moreover, this replacement of postmodern drawing by digital diagram has helped experimental architects transformed their attitudes towards theorizing and designing architecture. Second, through an analysis of the conditions and meaning of transferring form drawing to diagram, this study reached three conclusions: 1) A new paradigm responding to complex conditions of our contemporary society required the shift from existing media to new media; 2) The development of digital technologies allowed architects to changes in ways of representing architecture through architectural media; 3) Beyond the role of generator, diagram in architectural design process caused architects to do their diagrammatic thinking and practice.