Artificial Love: A Story of Machines and ArchitectureMIT Press, 9.05.2003 г. - 312 страници 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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... Architecture and technology . 2. Architecture - Aesthetics . 3. Mechan- ical engineering . I. Title . NA2543.T43 S52 2003 720'.1'05 - dc21 2002032134 PREFACE CONTENTS FIRST INTRODUCTION Jaques SECOND INTRODUCTION Thanksgiving SEMINAR ONE.
A Story of Machines and Architecture Paul Shepheard. PREFACE CONTENTS FIRST INTRODUCTION Jaques SECOND INTRODUCTION Thanksgiving SEMINAR ONE Right - Bam - Now ! INFANT The Chimpanzee's Fall from Grace 2 SCHOOLBOY 40 Words 3 SEMINAR TWO ...
... Jaques , in As You Like it , act 3 , scene 2 : All the world's a stage , and all the men and women merely players : they have their exits and their entrances ; and one man in his time plays many parts , his acts being seven ages . At ...
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A Story of Machines and Architecture Paul Shepheard. FIRST INTRODUCTION Jaques In the middle of the black Texas night , Jaques — the lover of machines — sits fast asleep , his face illuminated by the flicker of a television . A few ...
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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 |