Portman’s Afterlives
Portman’s Afterlives: A Visual-Computational Approach to
Architectural Theory is a book and mutlimedia project currently under development. It focuses on John Portman’s architecture by building on
his narrative describing his 1964 house Entelechy I as the generator for his
design principles. The research pairs this perspective with a visual-computational
methodology (and corresponding implementation) to speculate on the possibilities of the house as generator and
subsequently develops a rule-based theory on Portman’s architectural
contributions in interior, hospitality, urban, and residential designs. The project demonstrates how a visual-computational approach can mediate design
narratives and argues that formal studies are critical venues for describing,
interpreting, and evaluating architectural practices within a collective
disciplinary trajectory.
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