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When cities in the Orange Curtain finally ban cigarettes and plastic bags, there will be no more wafting ephemera in the way of the less physical ephemera that pervades this landscape.
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When cities in the Orange Curtain finally ban cigarettes and plastic bags, there will be no more wafting ephemera in the way of the less physical ephemera that pervades this landscape. American dreams. Illusions of happiness. Orange Curtains. It is impossible to be here without a theory, for there is no here, here. Theory is the tether. It unites the landscape - into dream and despair, association and significance, buy and sell. Mechudzu is a theory as practice - no hierarchies, no objects - a constant permutation of constant permutations, a means to a means. This is the layer that resists the demand for wanting, but still retains the dynamic structure of desire. Everything is theoretical. In the end.
Ill-a\f\,iI1g Stl-el1gtl1 fro In IVI aC:11 i11 e 1-1' Neil Spiller Twenty years ago Princeton Architectural Press published the very successful "Building Machines" issue of Pamphlet Architecture. It featured the mechanistic visions of Pfau/Jones, Neil Denari, and the gorgeously Dada works of Kaplan and Krueger. Real machines for living in inspired by hydraulic lines, JCBs, forklift trucks, aircraft, and all the metallic paraphernalia of late twentieth-century existence just before the computer became ubiquitous. It became an important benchmark in the "Architecture as Machine" idiom. That was then and now is now - all things return but differently. During the last fifteen years, Los Angeles teacher and practitioner Bryan Cantley has added to this particular geneology of architecture and has produced a substantial body of work, which should be much better known than it is. Cantley's work with his practice Form:uLA is forward-thinking whilst obviously referencing the seminal work done before, but it is designed for a different world. A world where the computer reigns supreme and where machines and virtual machines are forever changing guises and functions.
B. Cantley, Mechudzu, © Springer-Verlag/Wien 2011
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Contemporary existence involves navigating and operating a gamut of differing technologies and being conversant with a whole number of operational protocols. Imagine sitting on an aeroplane, whilst watching a video, a telephone in the armrest, an asthma inhaler in the pocket , a razor in the luggage , and a valentine's card rubbing against your laptop in its snug little bag. These simple everyday scenarios are the conceptual sites for FORM:uLA's architecture, which surfs, records, and posits in these fluxing machinic topologies and typologies, If you have a smart phone, and let's face it you probably do, you will be familiar with small "alerts" interrupting your surfing or emailing. When it does this the virtual machine of the phone, which usually pretends to be a word processor, a lap top, a camera, a gaming engine or a photo album, and a million things between, suddenly becomes a virtual geography teacher opening your mind up to a machine-augmented perception of a changing morphology of space and its fluctuating strata. This is cyborgian g
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