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"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),” Varnelis.net, March 2, 2009, http://varnelis.net/topics_115.</ref>
  
 
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Revision as of 15:49, 29 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]

"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

References

  1. Mark Dery - Architecture Fiction - Premonitions of the Present
  2. Architecture Fiction - Premonitions of the Present
  3. Kazys Varnelis, “In Defense of Architecture (Fiction),” Varnelis.net, March 2, 2009, http://varnelis.net/topics_115.