Architecture Fiction
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]
"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]
Related Reading
- Architecture Fiction - Premonitions of the Present
- Pedro Gadanho, “All the Beyonds,” Shrapnel Contemporary, May 7, 2009, http://shrapnelcontemporary.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/all-the-beyonds/.
- David Gissen, “Architecture Fiction—A Short Review of a Young Concept,” HTC Experiments, February 22, 2009, http://htcexperiments.org/2009/02/22/architecture-fiction-%E2%80%94-a-short-review-of-a-young-concept/.
- Geoff Manaugh, “Hotels in the Afterlife,” BLDGBLOG.com, April 21, 2008, http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/hotels-in-afterlife.html.
- Kazys Varnelis, “In Defense of Architecture (Fiction),” Varnelis.net, March 2, 2009, http://varnelis.net/topics_115.
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, http://varnelis.net/topics_115.
