建筑学与对尺度、精准性和可预测性的吸纳

Architecture and the Naturalization of Measurement,Exactness and Predictability

文化与技术的革新是14世纪和15世纪欧洲的重要特征,其转变与建筑设计作为独立专业的肇始有深刻的渊源。建筑史和艺术史的许多研究已对其中一些方面进行了探讨,包括在空间表达时采用尺寸标注,因纸张可相对便宜地购得让人们能通过草图表达空间概念,以及机械印刷的手段如何影响配有插图、描述思想和理论稿件的编辑和传播方式。本文在诸多认知世界的定性概念和定量概念之间存在矛盾的领域中,探讨了透视画和通过符号表达的设计如何不仅象征着人们在描述、沟通和探讨建筑学方式上的激进转变,也成为此后几个世纪诸多专业争论的基础。

The cultural and technical shift that tharacterised 14th and 15th century Europe is deeply intertwined with the origin of architectural design as an independent profession. Research works in architectural and art history have dealt with the naturalization of measurement in the representation of space, the expression of spatial ideas through sketches, which was made possible by the availability of relatively cheap paper, and the influence of mechanical printing on the way in which ideas and theories were edited and circulated along with illustrations. The essay explores how the codification of perspective drawings and notated design, among the many fields in which the tension between qualitative and quantifiable perceptions of the world unfolds, represented not only a radical shift in the way architecture was described, communicated and debated, but also the ground for professional debates in centuries to come.