Representation and Media in Architecture: Essays and methodologies of digital learning in architecture.

The media today reflect an indisputable dynamic in many fields of skills and human relationships, covering social, economic, cultural and even spiritual aspects, thus becoming “extensions” of the human being (McLuhan, 2008). The integration of the media aspect in Architecture brings new challenges in the dynamics of space and buildings, also encouraging the rehabilitation of existing spaces. We witness the emergence of methods, instruments and concepts that design new forms of artistic expression, as well as the creation of new concepts. The limits of Architecture become increasingly tenuous in its borders with other fields of art, we can say that technology, mainly linked to the media universe, was responsible for this fusion, thus making the artistic field into a hybrid fluid where borders are diluted and increase the interpretations of the countless creative and expressive possibilities. It is a fact that exploring the idea of ​​an architecture associated with new media could distance us from the endemic concept that characterizes it, which is intrinsically associated with design, materials, structures, spatial and environmental organization. However, the digital technological reality opens up new fields of intervention, appealing to research where interactivity and sensory experiences may be included. The global expansion of electronic systems in the dissemination, transmission, reproduction of images, sounds and characters is a reality that has reached all disciplinary areas, secretly infiltrating our consciences and our perception.

In the last twenty years contemporary architecture has been profoundly changed with the advent of computing and information technology. The spread of computer-assisted production and fabrication processes has updated the traditional role of geometry in architecture, opening up a new field of possibilities provided by topology, non-Euclidean geometry, parametric design and other areas of Mathematics.

The inclusion of new media technologies in the design and object of architecture is a reality, posing challenges and questions that will certainly change the way we interact with the built space.