LEADER 03421nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910455767003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-299-45768-1 010 $a0-262-28349-2 010 $a0-585-48108-3 035 $a(CKB)111087026953866 035 $a(OCoLC)53882367 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10686956 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000106145 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11133387 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000106145 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10107805 035 $a(PQKB)10658794 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3339612 035 $a(OCoLC-P)53882367 035 $a(MaCbMITP)1435 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3339612 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10686956 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL477018 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087026953866 100 $a20020812d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aArtificial love$b[electronic resource] $ea story of machines and architecture /$fPaul Shepheard 210 $aCambridge, MA $cMIT Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (311 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-262-69285-6 311 $a0-262-19485-6 330 $aA 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. 606 $aArchitecture and technology 606 $aArchitecture$xAesthetics 606 $aMechanical engineering 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aArchitecture and technology. 615 0$aArchitecture$xAesthetics. 615 0$aMechanical engineering. 676 $a720/.1/05 700 $aShepheard$b Paul$0727210 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455767003321 996 $aArtificial love$91423953 997 $aUNINA