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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.
Industry Reviews
A book that challenges the reader to reconsider deeply his relationship to the built world.
* Azure *Shepheard is that very rare thing - an architect who can write, beautifully.
-- Tom Dyckhoff * London Times *Shepheard seamlessly meshes Shakespeare, Greek mythology, the tale of the origins of Islam and stories from his own life.
-- Liz Bailey * The Architects' Journal *Unlike many such books on design, Shepheard's is accessible and entertaining.
-- Will Yandik * Architectural Record *ISBN: 9780262692854
ISBN-10: 0262692856
Series: Artificial Love
Published: 9th May 2003
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 312
Audience: General Adult
For Ages: 18+ years old
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 21.3 x 14 x 2.2
Weight (kg): 0.39
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