- Title
- Calculating visual complexity in Peter Eisenman's architecture: a computational fractal analysis of five houses (1968-1976)
- Creator
- Ostwald, Michael J.; Vaughan, Josephine
- Relation
- CAADRIA 2009: Between Man and Machine Integration/Intuition/Intelligence. CAADRIA 2009: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architecture Design Research in Asia (Yunlin, Taiwan 22-24 April, 2009) p. 75-84
- Relation
- http://www.caadria.org/cnf
- Publisher
- Department of Digital Media Design, National Yunlin University of Science & Technology
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- This paper describes the results of the first computational investigation of characteristic visual complexity in the architecture of Peter Eisenman. The research uses a variation of the “box-counting” approach to determining a quantitative value of the formal complexity present in five of Eisenman’s early domestic works (Houses I, II, III, IV and VI all of which were completed between 1968 and 1976). The boxcounting approach produces an approximate fractal dimension calculation for the visual complexity of an architectural elevation. This method has previously been used to analyse a range of historic and modern buildings including the works of Frank Lloyd Wright, Eileen Gray, Le Corbusier and Kazuyo Sejima. Peter Eisenman’s early house designs–important precursors to his later Deconstructivist works–are widely regarded as possessing a high degree of formal consistency and a reasonably high level of visual complexity. Through this analysis it is possible to quantify both the visual complexity and the degree of consistency present in this work for the first time.
- Subject
- computational analysis; fractal dimension; box-counting; Peter Eisenman
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/920299
- Identifier
- uon:9123
- Identifier
- ISBN:9860180800
- Language
- eng
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