Redesigning Architecture Through Photography

Abstract

This paper focuses on the possibility of (re)designing architecture virtually with the help of one of the most important representation tools: Photography. Various digital processes like stitching multiple photos together and mirroring images in imag e editing software like Photoshop, allow this virtua l architecture to take place in virtual environments. Photography can be utiliz ed i n the process of 'constructing' a new space-that we can call 'narrative space'-from an existing spatial body. This narrative space can also be defined as a 'manufactured metaspace' which is a space beyond reality and representatio n: A constructed reality that exists solely in digital realms like Second Life. ARCHITECTURE AND REPRESENTATION Depending on facilities and technologies available at various periods of the world history, architects used various tools like drawings, paintings, miniatures, models, computers, fine arts platforms to represent their design before and after construction. EVA 2008 London Conference ~ 22-24 July Murat Germen _____________________________________________________________________ 96 dynamic process of establishing the relationships between reality and the signscreated to symbolize this reality. In this process, reality becomes thinkable, and its meanings are symbolically assigned." [1.1]