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The Allegorical Architectural Machine. Edition No. 1. Architectural Design

  • Book

  • 144 Pages
  • November 2024
  • John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • ID: 5985334

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

Featured architects and designers: Jones, Partners: Architecture, Olson Kundig, Adolfo Luis Moure Strangis, and Liam Young.

Table of Contents

About the Guest-Editors 5
Daniel K Brown and Michael Chapman

Introduction Building Machines From Prodigies to Progeny 6
Michael Chapman and Daniel K Brown

Con-textual Devices and MachiNet(Works) 14
Bryan Cantley

Between Utopia and Hallucination 24
The Holistic Space in Speculative Drawing Practices
Kirill Chelushkin

Essential Machines 32
Kinetic Architecture and the Human Experience
Tom Kundig

The Machinic Garden of Forking Paths 40
Time, Tempo and Tango
Bea Martin

Because of Seeing Architecture 48
To Execute, It Is First Necessary To Conceive
Giuliano Fiorenzoli

Coping Mechanisms Four Dysfunctional Machines 56
Michael Chapman

The Temporalisation of Space and the Spatialisation of Time 64
Daniel K Brown

Machine Aesthetics 74
Material Indices of Post-Digital Architecture
Caleb White

Desirous Machines 94
Towards a New Architectural Allegory
Peter J Baldwin

Desirous Forces 102
The Great Endeavor, the Machine Allegory of Worldbuilding
Marissa Lindquist

The Glade of the Chicken Computer 110
An Allegorical Operator’s Manual
Derek Hales

Allegorical Façades 118
When Clouds Become Clocks
Brian M Kelly

The First Allegory and the Last Word 128
Wes Jones

From Another Perspective 136
Dogmatic Gas and Mosquitoes
Neil Spiller

The machine provided both an aesthetic and functional device linked not only to architectural form but also to fabrication
Daniel K Brown and Michael Chapman

Contributors 142

Authors

Daniel K. Brown Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Michael Chapman University of Newcastle, Australia.