"A diagram architecture is not necessary an architecture produced through diagrams.... Instead, a diagram architecture is an architecture that behaves like a diagram, indifferent to the specific means of its realization." This paragraph points out the answer that I struggled to find last semester. In the process of the design, I tried to find the potential through the translation from the reality to the abstract diagram. while I wondered if the architecture should rigorously develop from the analysis, the images representing the virtual and potential informaiton. After comparing the assertion of Stan Allen and my project, I realized what the diagram gives us is the chance to study and create in a special way.
"... since nothing can enter architecture without having been first converted into graphic form, the actual mechanism of graphic conversion is fundamental." To me, the diagram is really a particular way belonging to the architecture. Different from the statisics analysis, the use of diagram does not describe the things but the relationship between different elements and the potential of things themselves.