The Allegorical Architectural Machine

The intersection of architecture and the machine has a history that stretches back to the Industrial Revolution, however the machine has recently begun to appear in new ways in speculative architectural drawing and modelling. This issue of AD considers the influence of the machine as an allegorical device for exploring alternative architectural practices, and includes a cross-section of viewpoints from emerging and established international practitioners and academics. Allegory, a technique native to literature, provides a critical method through which machine typologies can contribute to deeper architectural narratives, offering new lenses for challenging or reassembling conventional modes of thought. An allegorical architectural project can unveil a story that enhances our awareness of something important. This AD reveals how engagement with the machine as an allegorical device in architectural discourse provides an avenue for architecture to provoke new ideas in response to current environmental, political, economic, cultural and social issues. At the forefront of this discussion, it extends the criticality of the topic within the broader spectrum of history, theory, philosophy, allegory and new technologies. Contributors: Daniela Atencio and Claudio Rossi, Peter Baldwin, Brian Cantley, Kirill Chelushkin, Giuliano Fiorenzoli, Marissa Lindquist, Bea Martin, Derek Hales, Wes Jones, Brian M Kelly, Tom Kundig, and Caleb White Featured architects and designers: Jones, Partners: Architecture, Olson Kundig, Adolfo Luis Moure Strangis, and Liam Young.

About the Guest-Editors 5 Daniel K Brown and Michael Chapman Introduction Building Machines From Prodigies to Progeny 6 Michael Chapman and Daniel K Brown Con-textual Devices and MachiNet(Works) 14 Bryan Cantley Between Utopia and Hallucination 24 The Holistic Space in Speculative Drawing Practices Kirill Chelushkin Essential Machines 32 Kinetic Architecture and the Human Experience Tom Kundig The Machinic Garden of Forking Paths 40 Time, Tempo and Tango Bea Martin Because of Seeing Architecture 48 To Execute, It Is First Necessary To Conceive Giuliano Fiorenzoli Coping Mechanisms Four Dysfunctional Machines 56 Michael Chapman The Temporalisation of Space and the Spatialisation of Time 64 Daniel K Brown Machine Aesthetics 74 Material Indices of Post-Digital Architecture Caleb White Desirous Machines 94 Towards a New Architectural Allegory Peter J Baldwin Desirous Forces 102 The Great Endeavor, the Machine Allegory of Worldbuilding Marissa Lindquist The Glade of the Chicken Computer 110 An Allegorical Operator’s Manual Derek Hales Allegorical Façades 118 When Clouds Become Clocks Brian M Kelly The First Allegory and the Last Word 128 Wes Jones From Another Perspective 136 Dogmatic Gas and Mosquitoes Neil Spiller The machine provided both an aesthetic and functional device linked not only to architectural form but also to fabrication Daniel K Brown and Michael Chapman Contributors 142