Research Project - Forensic Architecture · David Hill, AIA (Architectural Oversight) John Schofield (Anthropolical Oversight) Joshua Stephens, AAIA (Design Lead) Specifications:

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“The music always was...mine was only to order it.”Mozart

Old Saint Paul’s Cathedral (London, England)

Design Team:John Wall, CHASS (Team/Humanities Oversight)

David Hill, AIA (Architectural Oversight)John Schofield (Anthropolical Oversight)

Joshua Stephens, AAIA (Design Lead)

Specifications:Cathedral:

Destroyed in 1666Stone and Glass

Awards:Digital Humanities Grant

Degital reconstruction of the Old Sta Paul’s cathedral that was destroyed in the great fire of London in 1666 allows us to study the past in a way that was unavailble just a few years ago. The acedemic and historic impact for future generations of historians and architects alike are still being theorized. To introduce such a tool into the real of Architecture means that his dry inamges in the history books may come to life and instucture one on the meaning of space, form, and material. Forensic digital architecture serves as a new tool in this emerging instructional paradigm.