Dematerializtion of Architecture

The history of discourses has been developed for centuries, and architecture have entered a phase of re-evaluation. Beca riding habit of the prevalent technology and media of creation in the virtual world, contemporary architecture is dematerialized to be images and gyp ideas. The definition of architecture has move around even more(prenominal) subjective, obscure, ambiguous and limited. We took advantages from photography and the technology of visualization.But the excessive put on the visual sensation has somehow blind our eyes and becomes he obstacle for understanding pose and architecture. Photographers and designers selectively frame an object to depict a most exaggerated angle or to generate a most exciting moment. Audiences lost their self-direction in disc everyplaceing the truth, because there is no other materials unattached except the illusions. The resulted biased understanding to architecture contradicts to Juhani Pallasmaas theory. He reaffirmed Merleau-Pontys philosophy, the human form is the centre of experiential world, in his book The Eyes of The Skin.He argues that multi-sensory experience allows the human body perceiving the qualities of space, matter and scale in a more profound manner. However, the multi-sensory experience does not apply to those impalpable architecture. The obsession of rendering has enervated the importance of materiality. materiality means mapping or tiling texture everywhere the flat surface in the simulation program, handle physical properties, thickness, stiffness, elasticity, and density, of each specific material. We recklessly over simplify materiality.In renderings, stainless steel eans highly pondering and shiny wood means brown and motionless brick means pixelated facade. Material has been degraded to be a piece of veneer or wallpaper, fragile and dispensable. This encourages substituting one material with another material. It is not verboten of date to use hollow metal with shiny lotion to imitate stainless steel in the mental synthesis practice. The identity of material is fading away. Last exactly not least, the inflation of the project scale has break the relationship between an individual and the built habitat.The spacious scale of the new evelopments confuse us because everything is out of human proportion. Windows grow too big to become curtain wall. Doors are automatized, because they are too unsounded to open. Towers are too high that takes hours to walk up. We cannot use the traditional quantitative mechanism to interpret matters. We could scarce live within a building and just now get to see the whole picture of it. The unmistakable structure is dissolved to be purely impression. present we go back to photography in desire a solid answer to the understanding of contemporary architecture.