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. |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 85
... human artifice . The first part of my three - part sandwich is the four seminars : the story of me following up that idea . It expanded as I went until I found I was considering the entire range of human artifacts from the first pot ...
... human presence in the world . Buildings and machines have been playing tag for a hun- dred years now , and the period of wishing buildings were machines — and the idea of a machine aesthetic — is over . But buildings have not been let ...
... human re- lationships . The opera spread until it had a full cast of men , seven of us , all humming to the five - hundred - year - old words of Shakespeare's As You Like It , about the seven ages of man . I think it is fascinating the ...
... human artifice ' is hers . The Vita Activa is a piece on the human condition , and it's an active one — the human condition is what humans do . It's a trilogy , as gentle as wisdom itself . Labor , work , and action are her three ...
... human emotional bonds to each other ? The social insects ' sense of smell might be concentrated in their antennae or ... humans . Strong candidates , as you might expect , are the smooth muscles of our hearts and guts . Another mystery ...
Inhalt
1 | |
13 | |
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 |