Artificial Love: A Story of Machines and ArchitectureMIT Press, 9 mei 2003 - 312 pagina's A vision of architecture that includes sculpture, machines, and technology and encapsulates the history of the human species. According to Paul Shepheard, architecture is the rearranging of the world for human purposes. Sculpture, machines, and landscapes are all architecture-every bit as much as buildings are. In his writings, Shepheard examines old assumptions about architecture and replaces the critical theory of the academic with the active theory of the architect-citizen enamored of the world around him. Artificial Love weaves together three stories about architecture into one. The first, about machines as architecture, leads to speculations about technology and the human condition and to the assertion that machines are the sculptures of today. The second story is about the ways that architecture reflects the tribal and personal desires of those who make it. In the West, ideas of community, multiculturalism, and globalization compete furiously, leaving architecture to exist as it always has, as the past in the present. The third story features individual people experiencing their lives in the context of architecture. Here, Shepheard borrows the rhetorical device of Shakespeare's seven ages of man to propose that each person's life imitates the accumulating history of the human species. Shepheard's version of the history of humans is a technological one, in which machines become sculpture and sculpture becomes architecture. For Shepheard, our machines do not separate us from nature. Rather, our technology is our nature, and we cannot but be in harmony with nature. The change that we have wrought in the world, he says, is a wonderful and powerful thing. |
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... of applied science to become the entire field of human desire to change and improve the world . I discovered that the contemporary world has the tombs and the temples in it as well as the machines . What I think now is PREFACE.
... desires for eternity by harnessing the move- ment of action . I want to believe it , even though it's a matrix , not a recipe . Even though toil , pollution , and war fit as easily into it as the dignity , security , and peace that are ...
... desire and experiment : a nature that includes ourselves . If you had the math and the physics , she says , you might be able to compute the future of the first . But the second kind — that's plain unpredictable . And machines ...
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Inhoudsopgave
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RightBamNow | 29 |
INFANT The Chimpanzees Fall from Grace | 41 |
SCHOOLBOY 40 Words | 57 |
What Did They Do with My Future? | 71 |
LOVER The Lover | 87 |
SOLDIER Ex | 105 |
Quadrigas | 123 |
JUSTICE Enchanted Rocks | 137 |
PANTALOON Pardon? | 151 |
The Fields of Vision | 163 |
OBLIVION Me Me Me | 181 |
A Field Guide to the Machines | 189 |
ANNOTATED INDEX | 199 |
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Artificial Love: A Story of Machines and Architecture Paul Shepheard Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2003 |
Artificial Love: A Story of Machines and Architecture Paul Shepheard Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2003 |