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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... eyes that cannot see " and Greg Lynn's claim that " architecture re- mains as the last refuge of the flat earth society . " But why do those beasts of the past — pyramids , Parthenon , Pantheon— still exert such power ? Is it that they ...
... the justice , in fair round belly with good capon lin'd , with eyes severe , and beard of formal cut , full of wise saws and modern instances : and so he plays his part . The sixth age shifts into the lean and XII / PREFACE.
... all , that ends this strange eventful history , is second childishness and mere oblivion , sans teeth , sans eyes , sans taste , sans everything . FIRST INTRODUCTION Jaques In the middle of the black Texas PREFACE / XIII.
... eyes and eases himself out of the chair onto his hands and knees in front of the television . He turns the sound off again and boosts the color and the contrast and the scene becomes a dense metallic pastoral , like a summer traffic jam ...
... eye on the screen in the corner , which spills out its mixture of celebrity and massacre as disinterestedly as an oracle telling the future . They look like they are watching out for news of their own final catastrophe . Jaques is ...
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 |