Architecture is fiction
(worth checking out and please tell us what you think...)
"Architecture is a fiction," states Aaron Betsky in the first edition of Beyond that will appear this month. Beyond I is the first bookazine packed with short stories on architecture.
Beyond will be published twice a year. The first issue, entitled "Scenarios and Speculations," contains the story "White Fungus" by the science fiction writer Bruce Sterling, the comic "Re:doing Dubai" by Wes Jones and the reprint of Superstudio's "Twelve Ideal Cities."
Beyond*
Pedro Gadanho
ISBN 9789085066958
("White Fungus," a work of architecture fiction by Bruce Sterling.) http://www.sunarchitecture.nl/upload/49d601a8ba4b25.51434338.pdf
Find this (source): http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2009/04/architecture-fi.html
1 comments:
I really enjoyed the story "White Fungus" by Bruce Sterling; I think he is able to get a message across whilst not being particularly specific or lucid about any details of what is going on. It's somewhat of a shame that it was written by a science fiction writer rather then an architect; buzzwords are dropped like signposts to architects, sort of like a nudge and a wink - "hey guys, this is for you!".
I guess the white fungus could be paralleled with 'carolyne springs' in our cities; one imagines these fringe communities cut off from the CBD by rising fuel costs, neglected by the government and needing to resort to their own devices to make their environment livable...
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