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The Visual Language of Technique

Volume 2 - Heritage and Expectations in Research

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Luigi Cocchiarella

    1. Architecture and Urban Studies (DASTU) Campus Leonardo - Building La Nave, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

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  • Focus on theoretical remarks and on specific cases
  • Interviews and discussion reports available online
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Setting the Matter

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Working with the Image: Description Processing Prediction

      • Luigi Cocchiarella
      Pages 3-4

    3. Colloquium with the Editorial Staff of the Science Magazine FOCUS

      • Luigi Cocchiarella
      Pages 5-12

    4. Cognitive Power of Visual Images

      • Giuseppe Caglioti
      Pages 13-26

  3. Visual Language in Research: Between Theory and Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Interactive Sketch Interpreter for Geometric Modeling

      • Kunio Kondo, Taichi Watanabe
      Pages 29-48

    3. New Visualization Techniques in AEC-BIM More than Modeling

      • Clark A. Cory
      Pages 49-64

    4. Image Synthesis in Consideration of a Human Visual System

      • Yasushi Yamaguchi
      Pages 65-79

    5. Walking in Virtual Reality: Flexible Spaces and Other Techniques

      • Khrystyna Vasylevska, Iana Podkosova, Hannes Kaufmann
      Pages 81-97

    6. Archaeoastronomy in Action: The Role of Images in Understanding and Promoting Astronomical Heritage

      • Giulio Magli
      Pages 99-105

  4. Images in Research: Iconographies and Experiences from the PHD School of the Politecnico di Milano

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
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    2. Reading Results from Computer Simulations

      • Tommaso Solcia
      Pages 109-111

    3. Thoughts in Strokes: Archive Drawings and Analytical Sketches

      • Iva Stoyanova
      Pages 113-117

    4. The Knowledge of Images and the Historical Research on Existing Buildings

      • Giorgia Ottaviani, Lucia Pierro
      Pages 119-124

    5. Image as a Document and Vehicle of Knowledge

      • Anna Antonini, Kermican Apak, Giulia Brun, Giorgio Calegari, Silvia Colombo, Patrizia Della Vedova et al.
      Pages 125-129

    6. Images as Moment of Knowledge

      • Giulia Campanini, Elisa Fain
      Pages 131-135

    7. The Skyscraper of Piazza Repubblica in Milan

      • Giorgio Calegari, Valentina Sumini
      Pages 137-141

    8. Land Survey Through Description and Beyond Description

      • Matteo Giuseppe Romanato
      Pages 143-148

    9. The Visual Language Technique in Urban Studies Research: Investigation, Interpretation and Communication of City Complexity

      • Aldo Treville, Raffaella Cegna, Luca Vandini
      Pages 149-152
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About this book

The book is inspired by the second seminar in a cycle connected to the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Politecnico di Milano. "Working with the Image Description Processing Prediction" was the motto of this meeting, aiming to point out the role of Visual Language not only in describing reality, but also in supporting the thinking processes in Science (prediction), in Art (invention), in Technical studies (prevision) and in identifying and working on both visible and invisible phenomena. As John Barrow states, "So often a picture is better than a thousand words" and "The visual language is the most natural, while the other language could reasonably be considered as 'postscripts' to the human story". The essays included in the volume (from lectures, the poster session, interviews and round table) will show the wide range of technical possibilities connected with the present use of the Image, especially thanks to Computer Graphics, from 3D Modeling to Augmented Reality, while also offering a glimpse of interesting theoretical perspectives. In the end, as noted by Martin Heidegger, the word "theory" not only comes from the Ancient Greek verb "theoreo", that is "to see, to observe", but it also echoes the words "theos" and "thea", namely "god" and "goddess", and above all, it shares the root with the term "aletheia", which is the "truth", which is not far from the ultimate goal of research.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Architecture and Urban Studies (DASTU) Campus Leonardo - Building La Nave, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

    Luigi Cocchiarella

About the editor

Prof. Luigi Cocchiarella

Associate Professor, Department of Architettura e Studi Urbani (DASTU), School of Architettura e Società (Architecture and Society), since 1999 at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. 

Member of the Department Board of the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies.

Vice-President of the Bachelor in Architectural Science of the School of Architettura e Società Member of the Unione Italiana Disegno (UID).

Member of the Board of Regents of the International Society for Geometry and Graphics (ISGG).

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