Artificial Love: A Story of Machines and ArchitectureMIT Press, 09.05.2003 - 312 Seiten 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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... bodies that evolved a hundred thousand years ago to run and hunt and have joy in the chase ; the way we embody that evolved history by carrying our own little salt - sea oceans with us , our seventy - percent water contents , wherever ...
... bodies , just like the shimmering mirages on the ground itself . The herd is so big that it has become the landscape . It stretches out to the horizon as though it could fill the entire dusty sphere of Africa . Jaques rubs his eyes and ...
... bodies and jointed appendages ; Phylum Chordata , ineffably more complex , include the ones with a spinal column , like us . Maria appears in the street outside and beckons to Jaques from the open window of her Volkswagen . Her angular ...
... bodies ; nobody knows . A similar perplexity sur- rounds the origin of the emotional triggers in humans . Strong candidates , as you might expect , are the smooth muscles of our hearts and guts . Another mystery about the ants and bees ...
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Inhalt
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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 |