The Allegorical Architectural Machine
The Allegorical Architectural Machine by Daniel K. Brown, published by John Wiley & Sons on October 28, 2024, is a 144-page exploration of the relationship between architecture and machinery. This edition delves into how the machine has evolved as an allegorical device in architectural discourse, particularly in the context of speculative drawing and modeling. The book features a range of perspectives from both emerging and established practitioners and academics, examining the historical and contemporary implications of this intersection.
Readers will find a critical examination of how allegory, traditionally a literary technique, can enrich architectural narratives and challenge conventional thought. The text discusses how machine typologies can reveal deeper stories that address pressing environmental, political, economic, cultural, and social issues. By engaging with the machine as an allegorical device, this work aims to provoke new ideas and extend the conversation within the realms of history, theory, philosophy, and new technologies.
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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.
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