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Call for papers Revista de Arquitectura N.º 47. 

Ways of looking at architectural sustainability + FREE THEME

 

Deadline for receipt of articles:  September 10, 2024

Guidelines for authors: https://dearquitectura.uchile.cl/index.php/RA/about/submissions

Details and motifs: code and decoding of the architectural meassure

Authors

  • Sofía Letelier P. Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad de Chile
  • Cecilia Wolff C. Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad de Chile

Abstract

In architecture, a detail always presents a puzzle at first glance: to be understood, one needs to discover the clue to access the precise mental space of reference for its dimensional meaning. This recursive uniqueness –proved here in its history, its evolution and in it’s versatile present state–, leads to the point where detail is
sometimes the project leitmotif and even the means of visual scaling, while at the same time it forces to presume the reason for its actual scale. In other words, its meaningful presence has to be captured to understand the whole.

Keywords:

Architectural detail, Architectonic leitmot ifs, Scaling clues, Scaling, Visual percepction, Dimensional percepction