A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
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Having arrived in the 21st century at a definition of architecture that is time‐based and responsive to the user, Stephen Gagefinds ‘reliable conceptual tools that can be used to understand our craft’ wanting. He looks across to the rich seam of postwar cybernetics for inspiration. Drawing, in particular, on Heinz von Foerster's metaphor of the ‘trivial machine’, he urges us to transcend the reality of the predictable, creating the wonder and joy that is essential to architecture, through a dynamic relationship with context. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
10.1002/ad.700.abs
Having arrived in the 21st century at a definition of architecture that is time‐based and responsive to the user, Stephen Gagefinds ‘reliable conceptual tools that can be used to understand our craft’ wanting. He looks across to the rich seam of postwar cybernetics for inspiration. Drawing, in particular, on Heinz von Foerster's metaphor of the ‘trivial machine’, he urges us to transcend the reality of the predictable, creating the wonder and joy that is essential to architecture, through a dynamic relationship with context. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
The Wonder of Trivial Machines
Gage, Stephen (author)
Architectural Design ; 78 ; 12-21
2008-07-01
10 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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