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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... are made in the emotional flow of these evolved realities . And every generation has to learn from scratch the whole truth about the world for itself . That's the opera . The third book here is the index ; a thing PREFACE / IX.
... whole conversation . I reflected then that there should be some other way of doing things that would al- low some difficult assumptions to remain intact for the sake of investigation . The opposite of ' deep ' is unfortunately ' shal ...
... have been had he been there in their real lives . As he watches a hyena comes trotting back and forth be- neath the bellies of the wildebeest . Then another , doing the same thing , then another ; and soon a whole JAQUES / 3.
... whole little pack , right in among the legs of the herd . They move in a continuous trot , changing direction constantly , their long pink tongues hang- ing down and their shaggy coats swinging with the rhythm of the pace . Suddenly ...
... loves these machines as if they were his people . He polishes them , he nurtures them . He spends whole days poking at their insides with screwdrivers . If you ask him , he can tell you the exact moment he fell in JAQUES 5.
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 |