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The Allegorical Architectural Machine
Daniel K. Brown (Edited by), DK Brown (Author), Michael Chapman (Edited by)
9781394204175, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 1 November 2024
144 pages
27.4 x 21.6 x 1 cm, 0.612 kg
The intersection of architecture and the machine has a history that stretches back to the Industrial Revolution, however the machine has recently begun to appear in new ways in speculative architectural drawing and modelling. This issue of AD considers the influence of the machine as an allegorical device for exploring alternative architectural practices, and includes a cross-section of viewpoints from emerging and established international practitioners and academics. Allegory, a technique native to literature, provides a critical method through which machine typologies can contribute to deeper architectural narratives, offering new lenses for challenging or reassembling conventional modes of thought. An allegorical architectural project can unveil a story that enhances our awareness of something important. This AD reveals how engagement with the machine as an allegorical device in architectural discourse provides an avenue for architecture to provoke new ideas in response to current environmental, political, economic, cultural and social issues. At the forefront of this discussion, it extends the criticality of the topic within the broader spectrum of history, theory, philosophy, allegory and new technologies. Contributors: Daniela Atencio and Claudio Rossi, Peter Baldwin, Brian Cantley, Kirill Chelushkin, Giuliano Fiorenzoli, Marissa Lindquist, Bea Martin, Derek Hales, Wes Jones, Brian M Kelly, Tom Kundig, and Caleb White
About the Guest-Editors 5 Introduction Building Machines From Prodigies to Progeny 6 Con-textual Devices and MachiNet(Works) 14 Between Utopia and Hallucination 24 Essential Machines 32 The Machinic Garden of Forking Paths 40 Because of Seeing Architecture 48 Coping Mechanisms Four Dysfunctional Machines 56 The Temporalisation of Space and the Spatialisation of Time 64 Machine Aesthetics 74 Desirous Machines 94 Desirous Forces 102 The Glade of the Chicken Computer 110 Allegorical Façades 118 The First Allegory and the Last Word 128 From Another Perspective 136 The machine provided both an aesthetic and functional device linked not only to architectural form but also to fabrication Contributors 142
Daniel K Brown and Michael Chapman
Michael Chapman and Daniel K Brown
Bryan Cantley
The Holistic Space in Speculative Drawing Practices
Kirill Chelushkin
Kinetic Architecture and the Human Experience
Tom Kundig
Time, Tempo and Tango
Bea Martin
To Execute, It Is First Necessary To Conceive
Giuliano Fiorenzoli
Michael Chapman
Daniel K Brown
Material Indices of Post-Digital Architecture
Caleb White
Towards a New Architectural Allegory
Peter J Baldwin
The Great Endeavor, the Machine Allegory of Worldbuilding
Marissa Lindquist
An Allegorical Operator’s Manual
Derek Hales
When Clouds Become Clocks
Brian M Kelly
Wes Jones
Dogmatic Gas and Mosquitoes
Neil Spiller
Daniel K Brown and Michael Chapman
Subject Areas: Architecture [AM]
