John Soane was a collector. His Dulwich Picture Gallery is arguably the first such institution aimed at the general public. He built a museum around himself collecting everything from the contemporary social commentary of Hogarth to an Egyptian sarcophagus. He was part of a group that pioneered the idea of freeze-drying history, preserving, dissecting, framing and mounting. It seems a commonplace to us. We now capture and share the most banal personal moments and embalm them in digital databases.
What is a rendered image? The Building Information Models that I spend much of my time constructing and navigating are living, breathing things: tools for thinking with, records of human interaction. A screenshot from Revit captures the transient nature of this process, hints at the blundering activity that we call design. But clients now demand photo-realistic rendering at every stage of a project.
In a way these are much more dynamic and emotive than the crude axonometric world…
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