Machine Landscapes: What architecture looks like when nobody?s there
A new book explores the meaning of data centers, robot factories, and a world not built for humans Machines taking control?and making humanity obsolete?has a long history in pop culture, from Terminator to The Matrix.
What happens when that shift applies to architecture"
Machine Landscapes: Architectures of the Post-Anthropocene, a new collection of writing examining the growing portion of the built world made for machines, sounds as theoretical and futuristic as science fiction. But as the book?s editor Liam Young, a speculative architect, futurist, and instructor at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles, explains, many of the arguably most important and meaningful buildings today, including high-security nodes of the world?s internet infrastructure, simply aren?t meant for us. Human-centered design has, of course, been a centerpiece of design literature and discourse, Young says, to the point that we?ve literally been ?bending the plant to our will.? The new machine-focused work, ?hard drive-centered design,? represents something different.
?These are spaces where the traditional language of architecture breaks down,? he says.
The sheer banality of some of these spaces, engineered more to maximize airflow to cool endlessly replicable stacks of circuit boards, wires, and blinking lights, may represent a massive technological achievement. But it can look pretty boring. Machine Landscapes stares past the monotony to find meaning, and metaphors for our cultural moment.
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