Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Architecture's dying art
The Washington Times: "The shift from pen, pencil and paper to keyboard, mouse and screen began in the early 1990s when computer-aided drafting, known as CAD, became an affordable, efficient tool for churning out construction drawings. Today, CAD is a fixture of architecture firms and schools, where students learn to design on the screen rather than at the drafting board or in sketchbooks."
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I am part of the generation who hasn’t known life without computers churning out multiple copies of papers, draftings and renderings for them with ease. Computers are an amazing tool and are completely intergraded into my life. That said, as a designer my best ideas come when I stare at research with a pencil in my hand ready to sketch out ideas as they pop into my head. Somehow starting at a blank Photoshop document doesn’t produce the same creative work because, as the article mentioned, it constrains you. Not only do you have to figure out what you want to create, but you have to factor in how to use that particular program’s tools to fabricate said design. That “tool” problem is completely absent with a pencil and paper because the pencil feels like a mere extension of one’s own hand. Once a design has been sketched out to its ideal state nothing can match a computer’s skill in improving that design. With ease and speed a computer can change the size of an image for different formats, email it around the world, post it online for thousands to see and articulate the design with cleanness. The article mentioned loosing artistic or emotional connection to the design once it had been “computer-ized” and while this is true, to some extent, it must be put into perspective that generally this isn’t the final state of the design. A building or set piece will be created using the CAD drafting as a tool for construction but in its final state it will posses the same artistic qualities the original drawing had, being created by humans. It’s imperative to note that the computer is the middle man, the portal that makes the “page to stage” philosophy go faster. Used in this fashion I don’t think anyone can complain about the speed and crispness computers have brought us, but along side this as designers the computer work must be bordered by drawings and created works to keep the human element in our designs.
- sarah benedict.
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