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| − | If science fiction is a way of simulating the future, then architecture fiction is a way of simulating future architecture. | + | Architecture fiction is a way of exploring and testing alternative built forms and urban environments without the overhead of physically building and testing objects in real life. |
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| + | An ecosystem of interactions and possiblity futures. A way of exploring it in a simulated environment. An alternative urban fiction for exploring how things move, live, work and progress over time in a system different from our own. A way of exploring alternate systems thst may be more efficient or offer more creativity, better living conditions or worse ones. A way of speeding up or slowing down time. A way of exploring utopia and dystopia. Because sicnece fictino is not just about the people it is about the conditions in which one lives .And the coditions in which one lives, digital are not, are defined as architecture. Spaceships are entirely architecture. Entirely built and designed enivornments. | ||
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| + | The safety. The idea of it as a testbed. It means that it can expand into other areas as well. Science fiction does it in the same way, but architecture fiction offers a more visual perspective that can easily be gleaned by the reader instead of first immersing themselves in an fictional narrative. If science fiction is a way of simulating the future, then architecture fiction is a way of simulating future architecture. Games are also a way of testing future architectures. | ||
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| + | Most of archtiecture fiction doesnt come from architects but urbanists and science fiction writers. William gibson and philip k dick were inovled. A type of speculative futurism that focuses on urbanism or the built environment. It's all of the things that happen within that built environment. It can also include the virutal layers as well.Keiichi Matsuda - | ||
"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]]. | "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]]. | ||
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Definition
Architecture fiction is a way of exploring and testing alternative built forms and urban environments without the overhead of physically building and testing objects in real life.
An ecosystem of interactions and possiblity futures. A way of exploring it in a simulated environment. An alternative urban fiction for exploring how things move, live, work and progress over time in a system different from our own. A way of exploring alternate systems thst may be more efficient or offer more creativity, better living conditions or worse ones. A way of speeding up or slowing down time. A way of exploring utopia and dystopia. Because sicnece fictino is not just about the people it is about the conditions in which one lives .And the coditions in which one lives, digital are not, are defined as architecture. Spaceships are entirely architecture. Entirely built and designed enivornments.
The safety. The idea of it as a testbed. It means that it can expand into other areas as well. Science fiction does it in the same way, but architecture fiction offers a more visual perspective that can easily be gleaned by the reader instead of first immersing themselves in an fictional narrative. If science fiction is a way of simulating the future, then architecture fiction is a way of simulating future architecture. Games are also a way of testing future architectures.
Most of archtiecture fiction doesnt come from architects but urbanists and science fiction writers. William gibson and philip k dick were inovled. A type of speculative futurism that focuses on urbanism or the built environment. It's all of the things that happen within that built environment. It can also include the virutal layers as well.Keiichi Matsuda -
"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)", Varnelis.net, March 2, 2009.
- ↑ BLDGBLOG enters 2009 By Bruce Sterling, WIRED Magazine - December 31, 2008.
