图解之后

After Diagrams

在建筑学和城市领域中,图解无疑是一种强大的工具。它具备建立、设计、揭示一个想法的能力,同时又倾向于把作品中的复杂性简化、抽象为一种简单的符号。它不断地更新对一件作品的再现,继而将其缩减为一幅处于不断变动中的图像。因此,图解很容易成为对事物和事件的消费,成为对我们对所处世界的体验的消费。文章批判性地指出图解不仅仅是一种对现实的伪装,或者一种社会建构的现实,它同样是一种虚无主义的表现。

In the realm of architecture and urbanism, diagrams are powerful devices of the capacity to simultaneously construct, design, and expose an idea while at the same time, while simplifying and idealising the complexity of the work into one simple sign. The diagram is constantly updating the representation of a work, and thus reducing it to an always-changing figure. The diagram, therefore, tends to be a very accessible consumption of events and things, a consumption of our experience of the world. The article argues that diagrams are not just a camouflage of reality or a social constructed reality, but also （and especially） a form of nihilism.