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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... PANTALOON Pardon ? 151 SEMINAR FOUR 163 The Fields of Vision 7 OBLIVION Me ! Me ! Me ! CODA A Field Guide to the Machines ANNOTATED INDEX 181 189 199 PREFACE This book is three books sandwiched between one set VI / CONTENTS.
... 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 shard from Jericho to the last titanium bracket of the Hubble ...
... four seminars , tracking conversations I've had about machines and architecture with students , is the first part of the sandwich . The second is a soap opera . It is another way of exploring the same material . It came to me when my ...
... fours , machines and sculpture . That is the meal offered in this book . It is set in Texas , where I have been teaching at the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin while writing it ; the book is dedicated with ...
... Four of them harry the wildebeest's legs , biting and snapping to slow it down while the other two go in at its belly , tear- ing away bits of it with their teeth , disembowelling it on the move . Jaques watches riveted , appalled ...
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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 |