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If science fiction is a way of simulating the future, then architecture fiction is a way of simulating future architecture. | If science fiction is a way of simulating the future, then architecture fiction is a way of simulating future architecture. | ||
| − | "Architecture fiction anticipates the future present."<ref>[http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/architecture-fiction-premonitions-of-the-present/#i Mark Dery - Architecture Fiction - Premonitions of the Present]</ref> | + | "Architecture fiction anticipates the future present."<ref>[http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/architecture-fiction-premonitions-of-the-present/#i Mark Dery - Architecture Fiction - Premonitions of the Present]</ref> says [[Mark Dery]]. |
"The sci-fi subgenre is exemplified by short stories such as Bruce Sterling’s “White Fungus,” a post-recession vision of exurbia regained, where farmers grow cash crops on the crabgrass frontier and “derelict buildings [are] gutted and transformed into hydroponic racks,” transforming what was once farmland, before sprawl rolled over it, back into farmland. “Naturally, no (exurban bobos) wanted this logical solution,” writes Sterling".<ref>[http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/architecture-fiction-premonitions-of-the-present/#i Architecture Fiction - Premonitions of the Present]</ref> | "The sci-fi subgenre is exemplified by short stories such as Bruce Sterling’s “White Fungus,” a post-recession vision of exurbia regained, where farmers grow cash crops on the crabgrass frontier and “derelict buildings [are] gutted and transformed into hydroponic racks,” transforming what was once farmland, before sprawl rolled over it, back into farmland. “Naturally, no (exurban bobos) wanted this logical solution,” writes Sterling".<ref>[http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/architecture-fiction-premonitions-of-the-present/#i Architecture Fiction - Premonitions of the Present]</ref> | ||
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“Instead of absorbing into itself, a Dada Capitalist architecture would look out into the world, creating architecture fiction, a term that [[Bruce Sterling]] coined after reading this brilliant piece on modernism by J. G. Ballard, to suggest that it is possible to write fiction with architecture.”<ref>Kazys Varnelis, [“In Defense of Architecture (Fiction),” http://varnelis.net/topics_115] Varnelis.net, March 2, 2009.</ref> | “Instead of absorbing into itself, a Dada Capitalist architecture would look out into the world, creating architecture fiction, a term that [[Bruce Sterling]] coined after reading this brilliant piece on modernism by J. G. Ballard, to suggest that it is possible to write fiction with architecture.”<ref>Kazys Varnelis, [“In Defense of Architecture (Fiction),” http://varnelis.net/topics_115] Varnelis.net, March 2, 2009.</ref> | ||
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| + | "The field becomes almost infinitely more exciting when you realize that architectural projects, by definition, entail the reimagination of how humans might inhabit the earth – how they organize themselves spatially and give shape to their everyday lives".<ref>[http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2008/12/bldgblog-enters/ BLDGBLOG enters 2009] | ||
| + | By Bruce Sterling, WIRED Magazine - December 31, 2008.</ref> | ||
===Related Reading=== | ===Related Reading=== | ||
Revision as of 14:32, 30 March 2011
Definition
If science fiction is a way of simulating the future, then architecture fiction is a way of simulating future architecture.
"Architecture fiction anticipates the future present."[1] says Mark Dery.
"The sci-fi subgenre is exemplified by short stories such as Bruce Sterling’s “White Fungus,” a post-recession vision of exurbia regained, where farmers grow cash crops on the crabgrass frontier and “derelict buildings [are] gutted and transformed into hydroponic racks,” transforming what was once farmland, before sprawl rolled over it, back into farmland. “Naturally, no (exurban bobos) wanted this logical solution,” writes Sterling".[2]
Quotes
“Instead of absorbing into itself, a Dada Capitalist architecture would look out into the world, creating architecture fiction, a term that Bruce Sterling coined after reading this brilliant piece on modernism by J. G. Ballard, to suggest that it is possible to write fiction with architecture.”[3]
"The field becomes almost infinitely more exciting when you realize that architectural projects, by definition, entail the reimagination of how humans might inhabit the earth – how they organize themselves spatially and give shape to their everyday lives".[4]
Related Reading
- The Growthing - Fiction By Bruce Sterling - Renderings By Greg Lynn FORM. Published in MetropolisMag - January 2003.
- Science Fiction and Architecture Fiction by Bruce Sterling Published 03/20/2006 at 12:35 pm 2006-03-20.
- Thought Catalog: Architecture Fiction - Premonitions of the Present
- Pedro Gadanho, “All the Beyonds,” Shrapnel Contemporary, May 7, 2009, /.
- David Gissen, “Architecture Fiction—A Short Review of a Young Concept,” HTC Experiments, February 22, 2009.
- Geoff Manaugh, “Hotels in the Afterlife,” BLDGBLOG.com, April 21, 2008.
- Kazys Varnelis, “In Defense of Architecture (Fiction),” Varnelis.net, March 2, 2009.
References
- ↑ Mark Dery - Architecture Fiction - Premonitions of the Present
- ↑ Architecture Fiction - Premonitions of the Present
- ↑ Kazys Varnelis, [“In Defense of Architecture (Fiction),” http://varnelis.net/topics_115] Varnelis.net, March 2, 2009.
- ↑ BLDGBLOG enters 2009 By Bruce Sterling, WIRED Magazine - December 31, 2008.
