03421nam 2200613Ia 450 991045576700332120200520144314.01-299-45768-10-262-28349-20-585-48108-3(CKB)111087026953866(OCoLC)53882367(CaPaEBR)ebrary10686956(SSID)ssj0000106145(PQKBManifestationID)11133387(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000106145(PQKBWorkID)10107805(PQKB)10658794(MiAaPQ)EBC3339612(OCoLC-P)53882367(MaCbMITP)1435(Au-PeEL)EBL3339612(CaPaEBR)ebr10686956(CaONFJC)MIL477018(EXLCZ)9911108702695386620020812d2003 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrArtificial love[electronic resource] a story of machines and architecture /Paul ShepheardCambridge, MA MIT Pressc20031 online resource (311 p.) Includes index.0-262-69285-6 0-262-19485-6 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.Architecture and technologyArchitectureAestheticsMechanical engineeringElectronic books.Architecture and technology.ArchitectureAesthetics.Mechanical engineering.720/.1/05Shepheard Paul727210MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455767003321Artificial love1423953UNINA