Between the building and the street

摘要

It is almost certain that facades caused headaches for their designers long before the Eenaissance, but the adoption of orthogonal drawings in that period paved the way for new levels of complexity to emerge. As the drawn elevation became the principal tool for designing facades, as well as for communicating how they would look to clients and how they should be made to artisans, it became conceptually possible to detach the facade from its associated forms in a way that Gothic masons would have found unthinkable. The rise of orthogonal drawings over the perspective confirmed this split.