The first buildings on the web site: early manifestations of Architectural offices on the Internet (1995-2000)
[EN] This paper compares some of the first websites launched by architectural offices in the second half of the 1990s. The study reveals, firstly, the main constraints posed by the World Wide Web to the public dissemination of architects’ production and, secondly, the two strategies that would rule...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) |
| Repositorio: | RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia |
| Idioma: | español inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/169556 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/169556 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Internet Communication MVRDV SOM Snøhetta Representation Comunicación Representación gráfica |
| Sumario: | [EN] This paper compares some of the first websites launched by architectural offices in the second half of the 1990s. The study reveals, firstly, the main constraints posed by the World Wide Web to the public dissemination of architects’ production and, secondly, the two strategies that would rule the online communication of architecture ever since. On the one hand, corporate offices like SOM or Foster and Partners understood the new medium as a tool that would facilitate the dissemination of the office’s identity. To harvest this potential, their work had to be published online in a succinct, interactive, and stable fashion by means of photographs and renderings. On the other hand, emergent offices such as MVRDV and Snøhetta decided to use the new medium to push the boundaries of their work and to test new techniques of representation and graphic expression. |
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