Abstract
Vector-based techniques can not only be used to design the future, but also to unravel the past. The complexity of the past combined with the straightforwardness of the computer requires a pragmatic and basic approach in which the computer acts as a catalytic agent, enabling the scholar to arrive manually at his own —computer-assisted— conclusions. Only some projects of a morphological kind are suited to contribute to new knowledge, roused by the close-reading of the information gained by way of meaningful abstraction. As an example of this approach, some important results will be presented of a project studying the use of the Classical orders as prescribed in various architectural treatises, compared to the use of the orders in a specific group of still existing buildings in The Netherlands dating from the late sixteenth and entire seventeenth century. As such it is an adaptation of a part of a larger study containing a critical evaluation of the potentials of computer use in architectural history (Stenvert 1991b). Finally, a theoretical and methodological view of the implications of the basic approach is presented.
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