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IT has become fashionable in many architectural circles to declare the death of drawing. What has happened to our profession, an
IT has become fashionable in many architectural circles to declare the death of drawing. What has happened to our profession, an
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2019-08-01
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IT has become fashionable in many architectural circles to declare the death of drawing. What has happened to our profession, and our art, to cause the supposed end of our most powerful means of conceptualizing and representing architecture?
The computer, of course.【R1】______For centuries, the noun "digit" has been defined as "finger," but now its adjectival form, "digital," relates to data. Are our hands becoming obsolete as creative tools? Are they being replaced by machines? And where does that leave the architectural creative process?
Today architects typically use computer-aided design software with names like AutoCAD and Revit, a tool for "building information modeling. " Buildings are no longer just designed visually and spatially; they are "computed" via interconnected databases.
I’ve been practicing architecture since 1964, and my office is not immune.【R2】______There’s nothing inherently problematic about that, as long as it’s not just that. Architecture cannot divorce itself from drawing, no matter how impressive the technology gets.
【R3】______This last statement is absolutely crucial to the difference between those who draw to conceptualize architecture and those who use the computer.
But can the value of drawings be simply that of a collector’s artifact or a pretty picture? No. I have a real purpose in making each drawing, either to remember something or to study something. Each one is part of a process and not an end in itself. I’m personally fascinated not just by what architects choose to draw but also by what they choose not to draw.
For decades I have argued that architectural drawing can be divided into three types, which I call the "referential sketch," the "preparatory study" and the "definitive drawing. "【R4】______But what about the other two? What is their value in the creative process?
The referential sketch serves as a visual diary, a record of an architect’s discovery. It can be as simple as a shorthand notation of a design concept or can describe details of a larger composition. It might not even be a drawing that relates to a building or any time in history. It’s not likely to represent "reality," but rather to capture an idea. These sketches are thus inherently fragmentary and selective. The drawing is a reminder of the idea that caused me to record it in the first place. That visceral connection, that thought process, cannot be replicated by a computer.
The second type of drawing, the preparatory study, is typically part of a progression of drawings that elaborate a design. Like the referential sketch, it may not reflect a linear process. I find computer-aided design much more linear.【R5】______
[A]Like most architects, we routinely use these and other software programs, especially for construction documents, but also for developing designs and making presentations.
[B]I personally like to draw on translucent yellow tracing paper, which allows me to layer one drawing on top of another, building on what I’ve drawn before and, again, creating a personal, emotional connection with the work.
[C]As documentation produced by architects, typically drawings, plans and technical specifications, architecture defines the structure of a building or any other kind of system that is to be or has been constructed.
[D]With its tremendous ability to organize and present data, the computer is transforming every aspect of how architects work, from sketching their first impressions of an idea to creating complex construction documents for contractors.
[E]Drawings are not just end products: they are part of the thought process of architectural design, expressing the interaction of our minds, eyes and hands.
[F]The definitive drawing, the final and most developed of the three, is almost universally produced on the computer nowadays, and that is appropriate.
[G]Among the philosophies that have influenced modern architects and their approach to building design are rationalism, empiricism, structuralism, poststructuralism, and phenomenology.
【R4】
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答案
F
解析
本段首句指出从事建筑行业几十年来,作者的一个深刻感受是建筑绘图可以分为三个步骤:“referential sketch,”the“preparatory study”and the“definitive drawing”。空格之后提出问题But what about the other two? What is their value in the creative process?那么这里对三个步骤的其中两个提出了问题,简单地略读下文会发现这里的问题是针对第一个“referential sketch”和第二个步骤“preparatory study”提出的,由此可以判断空格处缺少的是对三者中的第三个步骤的陈述,“definitive drawing”可以通过电脑制图完成,这与前两个步骤形成对照,因此[F]为正确答案。
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