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of subject and IT |
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IT skills and
notions introduced |
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Hyperdocuments
used : description of their interface |
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Hypertextual searching
(or "lateral searching" as it is named in some
databases eg Humanities Index, sometimes called "rebondir"
in French databases) |
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Hypertext and cultural history |
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Architectural design was inspired
by historical models, the historical imagination interplaying
with the perception of contemporary townscapes and landscapes
 Palladianism
A type of architecture
following the principles of the 16th c. architect Andrea
Palladio, who built civic buildings and villas in and
around Vicenza (near Venice).
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He himself saw his architecture as an interpretation of
the structural principles of Antiquity, and his book contains
plates of ancient buildings restored to their imagined
original state. The imaginative universe of Palladian
architecture was that of an ideally perfect resurrected
ancient world (beyond the ruins that would be visible
to the eye).
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His design combine the elements in harmonious proportions:
the plates of his book show the measurements of the parts
of a building, or ideal proportions between the elements
of columns (base, shaft, capital). |
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1) In
a search engine,
type "Palladio"
2) Selection
of three websites among those returned; interpretation
of the URL:
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Palladian Centre (Vicenza):institutional site.
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greatbuildings.com: offers options between photographs,
VR (you need VR players).
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bogglewood site (.com at the end of the URL: put up by
a firm).
3) hyperlinks for "hypertextual
searching":
in
bogglewood site, you find a list of links (it is a "portal"),
in the section "Architecture and mathematics"
to nexusjournal: an online
journal
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this throws new issues into light: architecture and mathematics.
the
hypertextual search can be pursued according to new search
criteria: the authors
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in a search engine: "Lionel March" is a Professor
of Design and Computation at UCLA; you can go on to trace
his books (Architectonics of Humanism 1998, published
by Wiley).
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Rachel Fletcher
is a theatre designer and geometer, cocurator of the exhibit
"Harmony by Design: The Golden Mean". |
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Pompeii,
an ancient city near Naples buried under ashes during
the eruption of the Vesuvius in 79 AD, was rediscovered
in 1758.
- For the first time, a whole ancient
cityscape was accessible, instead of the detached ruins
embedded in present-day urban settings that would so far
have been visible (for instance in Rome).
- The archaeological imagination influenced
the perception and the design of townscapes. |
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| Sites containing archives (eg. 18th
c. engravings showing the discovery of Pompeii). The Pompeii
website is one of the multilingual
sites |
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Landscape
gardens.
The "landscaping" of parks also emphasised the
sense of a total landscape, in which the observer is included
(instead of observing it from the outside).
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Gardens would be designed in serpentine lines which "led
the eye a wanton chase" (Hogarth's words): the psychological
theories of the time studied the correlation between the
forms of the landscape (the "object") and the
modes of perception of the viewer (the "subject").
Multiple viewpoints were liked, imitating the complexities
if life. |
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| Panoramic views: the Stowe website
contains QTVR panoramic views |
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