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Abstract
Abstract From traditional hand-drawings to contemporary CAD visualisation, Alberti's Window has persisted as a fundamental instrument of architectural representation for over half a millennium. Writing from a phenomenological standpoint, architect and scholar Juhani Pallasmaa has criticised Alberti's Window for perpetuating a visually-biased design culture that marginalises the importance of other sensory modalities to spatio-temporal experience: this is the phenomenological dilemma of Alberti's Window . He has gone so far as to call for its rejection altogether. This paper seeks to establish a discursive foundation to address Pallasmaa's justifiable concerns. Adopted in its current form from Alberti's treatise on the art of painting in perspective De Pictura in 1435, the method was distilled mathematically by Cambridge scholar Brook Taylor in the early eighteenth century. Read in a phenomenological context, aspects of Brook Taylor's scholarship present a critical foundation from which to extrapolate the instrument's more complete conceptual potency within an architectural context. Notes 1. Juhani Pallasmaa, “Dwelling in the World: vision, hearing and hapticity in existential space”, Architecture/Music/Acoustics International Cross-Disciplinary Conference, Toronto: Ryerson University, June 8-10, 2006. 2. Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin, Oxford: Wiley-Academy, 2005, pp. 25-34. 3. Erwin Panofsky, Perspective as Symbolic Form, New York: Urzone Inc, 1991, p. 43. 4. Leon Battista Alberti, De Pictura, London: Phaidon, 1972. Translated by Cecil Grayson from 1435 edition. 5. Alberti, De Pictura. 6. Panofsky, Perspective as Symbolic Form. M. H. Pirenne, Optics, Painting & Photography, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. 7. Peter Eisenman, Diagram Diaries, New York: Universe Publishing, 1999, p. 39. 8. Sigfried Giedion, Space, Time and Architecture: the growth of a new tradition, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1941, 1967, p. 31. 9. Panofsky, Perspective as Symbolic Form, p. 49. 10. Panofsky, Perspective as Symbolic Form, p. 63. 11. Leon Battista Alberti, Della Architectura di Leon Battista Alberti including De Pictura, London: James Leoni Edition, 1739. Translated by Cosimo Bartoli from 1452 edition and 1435 editions respectively. 12. Kirsti Andersen, Brook Taylor's Work on Linear Perspective: A Study of Taylor's Role in the History of Perspective Geometry. Including Facsimiles of Taylor's Two Books on Perspective, New York: Springer Verlag, 1992, pp. 7-8. 13. Taylor, Brook, New Principles of Linear Perspective: or the art of designing on a plane the representations of all sorts of objects, in a more general and simple method than has been done before, London: St Paul's Churchyard, 1719. 14. Alberti, De Pictura, p. 54. 15. Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin, pp. 20, 25-34. 16. Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin, p. 27. 17. Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin, p. 10. 18. Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin, p. 34. 19. Catherine Ingraham, Architecture and the Burdens of Linearity: Theoretical Perspectives in Architectural History and Criticism, London: Yale University Press, 1998, p. 33. 20. Sanford Kwinter, Architectures of Time: toward a theory of the event in modernist culture, Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2002, p. 54. 21. Alan Baddeley, Human Memory: Theory and Practice, Hove: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1990. 22. Harry J, Gensler, Introduction to Logic, London: Routledge, 2002, p. 388. 23. Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin, p. 12. 24. The term “intervallic structure” is here used in the musical sense of the term to connote the architectonics (structuring) of musical tones/notes in the form of chords.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".