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摘要

Over the last two decades, the design ethos that has grown out of the digital turn has triggered key shifts in architecture. The far-reaching effects and consequences of this phenomenon are hard to spell out - and perhaps still too recent to be fully theorised (despite many attempts to do so). However, I think that some of the main shifts that have occurred in our field can be summarised as follows: representation to simulation; composition to systems; collage to pixelation; geometry to image; close reading to virtuosity; and details to close-ups. I have an ongoing personal interest in all of these aspects of design, but for the purpose of this article I want to explore the last two a bit more carefully, mainly because I see them as framing, and in a sense implying, the other four themes on my list.