Right from the beginning of the history of architecture, humanity's search for enclosure has always, in some respect, been in thrall to various guises of technology and the machine. Los Angeles architect Wes Jones has always been fascinated with technological forms, articulations and the philosophy of the machine. In a wide-ranging article, he describes some of the key ideas that have influenced him and his work over the years, illustrated with some of the work from his two practices.
California-based architectural educator Bryan Cantley has pursued the analogy of the machine consistently since his days as a student in Los Angeles. Over the last few decades, he has developed an instantly recognisable style, as he investigates the interstices of the virtual and the actual and all the mixed realities in-between. Here he describes his working methods and creative preoccupations that ferment into a hot, heady broth of architectural speculation.
While the machine is often seen as a powerful agent and enabler of extractive technologies, pollution and climate change, it can also be a necessary ally in resurrecting complex landscape rejuvenation projects that target potentially beneficial, catalytic natural hotspots. Daniela Atencio and Claudio Rossi, both architects and Associate Professors at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, show us how.
The machinic moving image has the power to engage with a larger audience than a drawing. It often strips away ambiguity, getting its message across fast and indelibly, coupled with the troubles of our age – particularly the mitigation of climate change, the need for profound international cooperation, and the sheer scale of the intervention required to ease these problems. Marissa Lindquist evokes Australian artist and filmmaker Liam Young's Great Endeavor film project that relishes a new technological sublime – long a preoccupation in his work.
Nearly two decades ago, Neil Spiller and architect and teacher Derek Hales had a conversation about analogue computers. With its Surreal and ’pataphysical concerns, the conversation resonated with Spiller and inspired his design for the Chicken Computer, one of the centrepieces of his ‘Communicating Vessels’ series of drawings and writings. Hales reflects on the curious and extraordinary ideas that this chunking engine of pecking, haptic chance provokes in him.
Façades in architecture have essentially been used in two ways: to present blankness concealing the programmes and functions behind them or to express vitality, institutional strength and semiotic cosmologies. With the advent of AI, diffusion models and their quick processing of huge data clouds, façade exercises can be used differently as forms of inspiration for architects. Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Brian M Kelly demonstrates how disembodied AI devoid of old architectural rules can make architects re-examine their traditional ways of architectural composition.
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