TY  - GEN
T1  - Artificial love : a story of machines and architecture
A1  - Shepheard, Paul
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
YR  - 2003
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm53882367
AB  - 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.
OP  - 296
NO  - Includes index.
CN  - NA2543.T43 S52 2003eb
SN  - 9780262283496
SN  - 0262283492
SN  - 0585481083
SN  - 9780585481081
SN  - 0262194856
SN  - 9780262194853
SN  - 0262692856
SN  - 9780262692854
KW  - Architecture and technology.
KW  - Architecture : Aesthetics.
KW  - Mechanical engineering.
KW  - Architecture et technologie.
KW  - Architecture : Esthétique.
KW  - Génie mécanique.
KW  - mechanical engineering.
KW  - ARCHITECTURE : Urban & Land Use Planning.
KW  - Architecture : Aesthetics
KW  - Architecture and technology
KW  - Mechanical engineering
KW  - Bouwkunst.
KW  - Machines.
KW  - Cultuurfilosofie.
KW  - ARCHITECTURE/Architectural History/General
ER  -