Digital Architectural Archives – Aesthetic Reading

Boško Drobnjak

doi:10.25038/am.v0i28.560

Authors

Boško Drobnjak University of Belgrade – Faculty of Arhitecture, Belgrade, Serbia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i28.560

Keywords:

digital technology; architectural practice; digital archives; digital images; aesthetic communication; architectural representation.

Abstract

My aim in this paper is to examine the impact of digital technology on the perception and practice of architecture. Online activities leave discernible traces, challenging the traditional ontological view of the subject’s independence from the material world. I will offer an exploration of the Internet’s role as the primary communication medium transforms architectural practice, emphasizing digital archives and distribution. Platforms like Pinterest, ArchDaily, and Instagram have transformed how architectural practices are shared and consumed, cultivating a new culture of multimodal communication. Within this context, I will discuss how digital technologies have profoundly altered perceptions of materiality, space, and information. I will explore how architects and artists now operate within an interconnected network of social, economic, and technological forces, moving away from traditional media to embrace digital fragmentation. This shift impacts how architectural objects are perceived, from complete forms to fragmented digital representations that are accessible to a global audience.

Author Biography

Boško Drobnjak, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Arhitecture, Belgrade, Serbia

Boško Drobnjak (b. 1988, Belgrade) is a teaching assistant at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture. He holds a PhD degree in Architecture. Drobnjak’s research focuses on the interdisciplinary relations of art theory, aesthetics, politics, experimental, and avant-garde architectural practices. He published several articles in both Serbian and English. Drobnjak was a guest co-editor on one issue of the Finnish journal (Aalto University) for aesthetics and popular culture Popular Inquiry (2020), co-editor of the publication Proceedings of the 21^st International Congress of Aesthetics, Possible Worlds of Contemporary Aesthetics, Aesthetics Between History, Geography and Media (2019), and co-editor of the publication 100 Years of the Bauhaus – Contextualizations and Re-Contextualizations of the Bauhaus in the Yugoslav Art Space (2019). Drobnjak is a member of the International Association for Aesthetics (IAA), European Architectural History Network (EAHN), The European Society for Aesthetics (ESA), International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and he is secretary of the Serbian Society for Aesthetics of Architecture and Visual Arts (DEAVUS).

References

Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.9904

Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” In Selected Writings Volume 3, 1935–1938, edited by Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings, 101–133. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.

Castells, Manuel. The Rise of the Network Society. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Debord, Guy. The Society of the Spectacle. London: Rebel Press, 2005.

Deleuze, Gilles. “Postscript on the Societies of Control.” October 59 (1992): 3–7.

Grosz, Elizabeth. Architecture from Outside. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2001.

Groys, Boris. In the Flow. London and New York: Verso, 2016.

Height, Christopher. “Manners of Working: Fabricating Representation in Digital Based Design.” In The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, edited by Greig Crysler, Stephen Cairns and Hilde Heynen, 410–29. New York: SAGE Publications Ltd., 2012. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446201756.n25

Hill, Jonathan. Immaterial Architecture. New York: Routledge, 2006. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203013618

Holl, Steven, Juhani Pallasmaa, and Alberto Perez-Gomez. Questions of Perception: Phenomenology of Architecture. San Francisco: William Stout Publishers, 2007.

Kittler, Friedrich. Optical media: Berlin Lectures 1999. Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2010.

Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993.

Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22230/cjc.2002v27n1a1280

Milenković, Vladimir. Forma prati temu – petodelni metodološki esej. Beograd: Univerzitet u Beogradu – Arhitektonski fakultet, Muzej primenjene umetnosti, 2015.

Mladenović, Milja. “Mixed-reality Heritage: Edutainment Potential in Students Square Area Public Spaces.” Serbian Architectural Journal 15, 23 (2023): 314–31. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5937/saj2303314M

Nikolić, Marko, Boško Drobnjak, and Irena Kuletin Ćulafić. “The Possibilities of Preservation, Regeneration and Presentation of Industrial Heritage: The Case of Old Mint “A.D.” on Belgrade Riverfront.” Sustainability 12, 5264 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3390/su12135264 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su12135264

Osborne, Peter. The Postconceptual Condition: Critical Essays. London, Brooklyn, NY: Verso, 2018.

Paić, Žarko. Tehnosfera I. Žrtvovanje i dosada: Životinja – Čovjek – Stroj. Zagreb: Biblioteka Sandorf & Mizantrop, 2018.

Pallasmaa, Juhani. The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Academy, 2005.

Smith, Terry. “Contemporary Art and Contemporaneity.” Critical Inquiry 32, 4 (2006): 681–707. https://doi.org/10.1086/508087. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/508087

Strauss, Wolfgang and Monika Reischmann. “Implosion of Numbers: Performative Mixed Reality.” In Disappearing Architecture: From Real to Virtual to Quantum, edited by Georg Flachbart and Peter Weibel, 118–31. Basel: Birkhäuser Architecture, 2005.

Šuvaković, Miško. “Skice za teoriju novih medija.” Kultura 147 (2015): 52–67. https://doi.org/10.5937/kultura1547052s DOI: https://doi.org/10.5937/kultura1547052s

Till, Jeremy. Architecture Depends. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2013.

Virilio, Paul. The Information Bomb. London and New York: Verso, 2005.

Zumthor, Peter. Atmospheres: Architectural Environments. Surrounding Objects. Basel, Boston, Berlin: Birkhäuser Architecture, 2006.

Zumthor, Peter. Thinking Architecture. Basel, Boston, Berlin: Birkhäuser Architecture, 1999.

Digital Architectural Archives – Aesthetic Reading

Authors

DOI:

Keywords:

Abstract

Author Biography

Boško Drobnjak, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Arhitecture, Belgrade, Serbia

References

Downloads

Published

How to Cite

Issue

Section

License