| authors |
Francis, Sabu |
| year |
1999 |
| title |
The Importance of Being Abstract: An Indian Approach to Models |
| doi |
https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1999.101
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| source |
Architectural Computing from Turing to 2000 [eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9523687-5-7] Liverpool (UK) 15-17 September 1999, pp. 101-109 |
| summary |
Traditional Indian way of life is surrounded by ambiguity. This is in direct contrast to an Aristotelian approach, where polarised stands are always taken. A black and white approach tends to yield results speedily, but exhaustive solutions which can explain complexity are usually brute force procedures. Even so, their conclusions in the end are still suspect. The author believes that rich solutions may exist when we use an 'alternate' or abstract synthesized reality to do our modelling instead of relying on analogies and other direct links to the real world. Models that allow synthesis tend to accept ambiguity. The author presents in this paper an 'unconventional' system to represent architecture which has had some amount of success probably because it started of, on pure abstract grounds that allowed ambiguity instead of basing it on an Aristotelian, analytical model. |
| keywords |
Aristotle, Buddha, Representations, Abstract Models |
| series |
eCAADe |
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| full text |
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