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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... round a pool . They are meals in kit form , ready for you to assemble yourself . Your glue is the wide selection of condi- ments twinkling in their jars and bottles , like the towers of a city center , right there in the middle of the ...
... 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.
... round about the city all day and all night long , like the blood running in its veins . Houston . This modern , mo- bile place is not like those futuristic high - rise dream cities of the 1920s , with their hovering airplanes nudging up ...
... are shown your place in the world . Little children know that — they cluster round televisions instinctively , like wasps at a honey pot . At two years old they stand with their noses pressed to the 4 / FIRST INTRODUCTION.
... round the room , slowly waving his plastic assault rifle to cover his retreat . Juliet and Juliet skip after him . The little girl , my sis- ter's daughter , is three feet high , four years old , naked , pink , and bony with blond curls ...
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 |