The Space of Cartography (en inglés)

<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>&ldquo;All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention&rdquo; Rudolph Arnheim</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Among the places found inside contemporary cities,...

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Main Author: Gabriel Carrascal Aguirre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid 2012-12-01
Series:Cuadernos de Proyectos Arquitectónicos
Online Access:http://polired.upm.es/index.php/proyectos_arquitectonicos/article/view/1962
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description <p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>&ldquo;All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention&rdquo; Rudolph Arnheim</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Among the places found inside contemporary cities, a certain&nbsp; kind of space exists, the importance of which is often&nbsp;&nbsp; overlooked, even by those who are charged with creating them. This could be explained by the fact that, singularly, these spaces&nbsp; do not have a specific location, since they are in essence symbolic or conceptual in character. I am referring to our way of graphically representing our environment: maps. As will soon be explained, the map in itself is a place that substitutes the reality that it represents. It is a surrogate space that operates fundamentally through analogy and abstraction.<br />The production and use of this type of space carries important&nbsp; implications in the configuration of our physical environment at any scale, be it that of a project, a city or the land. The transformative capacity of cartographic activity will be comparable&nbsp; here to project design, refuting the usual conception about both as having essentially different natures; project design is usually seen as being dynamic in character and tinged with specific actions leading to a transformation of the environment over time, while maps are reduced to being a static projection of an existing physical reality onto a smaller surface. The fundamental idea behind putting maps and projects on the same level rests on the fact that any form of spatial representation entails an exercise of acting upon the&nbsp; represented object.</p><p><strong>Key words</strong></p><p>place, cartography, landscape, abstraction, geometry<strong><br /></strong></p>
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spelling doaj.art-0eaf16ec080946ccba56524aa1604fba2022-12-21T17:56:19ZengUniversidad Politécnica de MadridCuadernos de Proyectos Arquitectónicos2171-956X2174-11312012-12-0103128129The Space of Cartography (en inglés)Gabriel Carrascal AguirreGabriel Carrascal Aguirre<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>&ldquo;All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention&rdquo; Rudolph Arnheim</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Among the places found inside contemporary cities, a certain&nbsp; kind of space exists, the importance of which is often&nbsp;&nbsp; overlooked, even by those who are charged with creating them. This could be explained by the fact that, singularly, these spaces&nbsp; do not have a specific location, since they are in essence symbolic or conceptual in character. I am referring to our way of graphically representing our environment: maps. As will soon be explained, the map in itself is a place that substitutes the reality that it represents. It is a surrogate space that operates fundamentally through analogy and abstraction.<br />The production and use of this type of space carries important&nbsp; implications in the configuration of our physical environment at any scale, be it that of a project, a city or the land. The transformative capacity of cartographic activity will be comparable&nbsp; here to project design, refuting the usual conception about both as having essentially different natures; project design is usually seen as being dynamic in character and tinged with specific actions leading to a transformation of the environment over time, while maps are reduced to being a static projection of an existing physical reality onto a smaller surface. The fundamental idea behind putting maps and projects on the same level rests on the fact that any form of spatial representation entails an exercise of acting upon the&nbsp; represented object.</p><p><strong>Key words</strong></p><p>place, cartography, landscape, abstraction, geometry<strong><br /></strong></p>http://polired.upm.es/index.php/proyectos_arquitectonicos/article/view/1962
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