Sketches

The new technologies of today's world, applied in the perceptive and creative processes, bring the need to rediscover the role of representations in both, academic and professional, areas of architecture. Therefore, this article seeks to understand and demystify Oscar Niemeyer’s (1907-2012) design process, one of the most renowned Latin American architects in the world and known for his peculiar design process - distinguished by consisting only of sketches and texts, but, as this research reveals, also by physical models - and his broad professional activity, which accompanied the variations occurred in architectural production in Brazil and in the world, between the years 1940 and 2010

"Die Arbeitweise Arnold Schönbergs" gibt mit Untersuchungen und Analysen eines umfangreichen und vielseitigen Werkes, das mehrere hundert Kompositionen umfasst, Einblick in die Entstehung von Schönbergs Musik. Neben einer Beschreibung und statistischen Auswertung der Quellensorten in Schönbergs Manuskripten wird das Werkstattmaterial analytisch anhand von ausgesuchten Beispielen betrachtet. Zudem wird beleuchtet, wie der Komponist sich selbst bei seinem Schaffen wahrnahm: nicht konstruieren, sondern den Gedanken Ausdruck verleihen.

Although the Parthenon has stood on the Athenian Acropolis for nearly 2,500 years, its sculptural decorations have been scattered to museums around the world. Many of its sculptures have been damaged or lost. Fortunately, most of the decoration survives through drawings, descriptions, and casts. A component of our Parthenon Project has been to assemble digital models of the sculptures and virtually reunite them with the Parthenon. This sketch details our effort to digitally record the Parthenon sculpture collection in t he Basel Skulpturhalle museum, which exhibits plaster casts of almost all of the existing pediments, metopes, and frieze. Our techniques have been designed to work as quickly as possible and at low cost.

Doña Bárbara. Merodea por el centenario. La encontramos en el capítulo III de la primera parte como una chiquilla de unos quince años y al fin del cuento, en el capítulo XV de la tercera parte, ronda la cuarentena. Es una guaricha preciosa que está a punto de ser vendida a un sultán turco -después se aclara que es sirio -establecido en su cacicato orinoqueño. Asdrúbal la defiende hasta su muerte y allí se acabó Barbarita. Nace en aquel mismo momento la devoradora de hombres can toda su avaricia, sus brujerías elevadas al cubo y se convierte, en su finca El Miedo, en la mujer más complicada, más corruptiva y endemoniada de todo el cauce del Arauca. Hemos de aclarar que no se hizo a sí misma esa clase de mujer. La moldearon los hombres de baja estofa con los que tuvo que librar en su niñez. Era bella, trabajadora, buena cocinera, para los seis marineros/piratas y su taita que: La brutalizaban con idénticas caricias: rudas manotadas, y besos que sabían a aguardiente y a chimó.

Lines are mysterious. They are drawn by the hand, they are seen by the eye, they appear in the world. Lines are what the hands draw, what the eyes see, and what the page represents. Lines form forms. Simple regular visual/spatial forms like dots, lines, and containers, have meanings that are readily apparent in context. They are used in the service of clear communication, to self and others, notably in diagrams and gesture. They are used to organize, indeed to diagram, the world. Other, messy sketchy lines are used for exploration and discovery.

3. the arrangement, which answers to the question "according to which order to place information on a screen?" (or "how should IO be arranged in a PU?" by logical order, by frequency or by predefined format?). This study is devoted to the layout problem in the TRIDENT project (Tools foR an Interactive Development ENvironmenT) , which is dedicated to highly interactive business -oriented applications. In this project, the placement problem consists of a computer-aided visual placement of interaction objects (IO) included in a more composite IO called Presentation Unit (PU). Two strategies for placing IO within a PU are characterised and investigated : a static two-column based strategy and a dynamic right/bottom strategy. Each strategy decomposes the placement into three partially overlapping dimensions : localisation, dimensioning, and arrangement. A set of simple mathematical relationships is introduced to rate the quality of visual principles gained with the re...

From the librettist’s perspective, the traditional working methods which tend to dominate in the creation of new music drama, often result in a situation where the initial intentions are lost along the way. How can we get away from a rigid methodology, where the different professionals involved in the creation of new music drama have to succumb to a procedure which can be likened to a whispering game? A procedure, where the dramatic content, rather than undergoing an emotional enrichment in its transformation into music, often loses the crucial connections to the initial intentions. This doctoral project aims to reach beyond the whispering game by seeking alternative working methods in the creation of a new music drama with the working title "Borderlands", circling around the subject matter of flight and borders - inner as well as outer. The research identified cross–border methods which, borrowing from the terminology of Martin Buber, can be seen as an attempt to countera...

The new technologies of today's world, applied in the perceptive and creative processes, bring the need to rediscover the role of representations in both, academic and professional, areas of architecture. Therefore, this article seeks to understand and demystify Oscar Niemeyer's (1907-2012) design process, one of the most renowned Latin American architects in the world and known for his peculiar design process-distinguished by consisting only of sketches and texts, but, as this research reveals, also by physical models-and his broad professional activity, which accompanied the variations occurred in architectural production in Brazil and in the world, between the years 1940 and 2010