Video in Achre. Representation

...digital video could concern not only the creative process in urban and landscape design, but also the entire chain of decisions leading to the understanding and approval of a specific project. This new way of looking probably lies at the very margins of our habitual conceptual framework, where the actual blending of different times in space produces a new dimension. The tool of digital video, combined with to some extent more classical means of topographic and architectonic representation, would enable one to formulate such a synthetic vision of site, where the relativity of time, space, and motion are all present...It requires students to better incorporate spatial and temporal considerations in their work.

Christophe Girot teaches at ETH-Zurich. We'll read this article in the next few weeks.