Associate Professor Mark Ericson has been published in the聽Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. His article, titled聽Grasshopper Algorithmic Modeling for Rhinoceros, explores architectural history through computer-aided design and scripting. The article聽expands on the role of history in architectural production and how to offer new techniques of formal analysis in historical inquiry.
Focusing his article through the lens of Grasshopper, a free plug-in for the digital modeling software Rhinoceros (commonly referred to as Rhino), Mark explains the three-dimensional geometric modeling application聽and its origins in what Mario Carpo has called 鈥渢he digital turn in architecture.”聽As Mark mentions, this digital turn “would set historical analysis and digital technique in relationship to one another, using architectural history as a legitimating continuum within which to situate computational work and as a source for working methods.” Mark draws upon the work of Greg Lynn, Cameron Wu, and Adam Marcus to illustrate differences between the historian and architect; i.e., the聽historian may aim for a “precise and invariant” relationship with historical objects, whereas architects often look to make history operative.
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About the JSAH
Published since 1941,聽闯厂础贬听is widely recognized as a leading English-language journal on history of the built environment. Published four times per year, each issue offers four to five scholarly articles on topics from all periods of history and all parts of the world, reviews of recent books, exhibitions, films, and other media, and a variety of editorials and opinion pieces designed to place the discipline of architectural history within a larger intellectual context.聽Published both in print and online,聽闯厂础贬听brings topics to life for those interested in the history of architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism.