Experiential Visualization in Architectural Design Media

Experimental Visualization in Architectural Design Media: How It Actually Works is a theoretical, practical, and interdisciplinary account of the tools used by architects and designers.

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Vincent B. Canizaro is an Associate Professor at The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA whose overall focus is design in connection to place. He teaches in the graduate program and publishes on the issues of regionalism and environmental architecture, sustainability, community-oriented design, design media, and site-specific design theory. His writing and research have been published in regional, national, and international venues and have led to local and international symposia. As an editor with the Journal of Architectural Education, he co-edited two special issues on Architecture and Landscape and Sustainable Architecture. He has published Architectural Regionalism and contributed chapters to Pragmatic Sustainability, the Routledge Companion to Architectural History, and the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World. He has co-curated art and architectural exhibits and won awards for both design and publications. He is a registered architect in Massachusetts and has practiced in Austin, Boston, Rhode Island, and California.

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List of figures

Preface

Acknowledgments ****

1. Mind the Gap: On the Uneasy Partnership between Representation and Experience

2. What has Been Said Before

3. Desk and Screen: Media in Architectural Design

4. Dig It: Media and Mediation

5. Do You Have the Right Tool?:Technology & Mediation

6. Architects & Tools: Design Media over Time

7. Disappearing into the Work: Technologies of Perception

8. Making Relations: Representation and Media

9. Place, Experience, and Atmosphere in Architectural Design

10. Design with Hand and Eye: Drawing

11. Show it in Space: Modeling

12. The Infinite Spaces: Digital Design Tools

13. Design with Hand, Eye, and a Chop-Saw: Design-Build

14 Ways of Working that Favor Experiential Understanding

15. Six Ways Towards Experiential Visualization

Index