Bringing down the house: demolishing myths
By: Blake, Eddie
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Publisher: London EMAP Publishing Limited 2019Edition: 13 February 2019.Subject(s): ARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)Online resources: Click here
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Architectural reviewSummary: It took so much stuff to get that flat there. Millennia of accreted building technology. The aggregate that was scooped out of the ground in Kent, graded, washed, moved, then mixed with the sand and cement from the factory at Tilbury Docks. The mixers, the steel, the cranes. One could read the history of architecture as a history of stuff. Of trees cut down and joined together, of clays dug up and baked, of ore mined from the earth, refined and formed. Stuff piled up or fixed together with increasing complexity. Think of the accuracy with which this stuff is now assembled. Imagine the tools rolling from production lines: the thousands of diggers a year that trundle off over the surface of the planet, the cranes and mixers moving, lifting and placing stuff into designated positions. Order formed out of entropy. The order of that stuff adds up to more than the sum of its parts. That order is architecture – a cultural act that makes the stuff mean something.
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It took so much stuff to get that flat there. Millennia of accreted building technology. The aggregate that was scooped out of the ground in Kent, graded, washed, moved, then mixed with the sand and cement from the factory at Tilbury Docks. The mixers, the steel, the cranes. One could read the history of architecture as a history of stuff. Of trees cut down and joined together, of clays dug up and baked, of ore mined from the earth, refined and formed. Stuff piled up or fixed together with increasing complexity. Think of the accuracy with which this stuff is now assembled. Imagine the tools rolling from production lines: the thousands of diggers a year that trundle off over the surface of the planet, the cranes and mixers moving, lifting and placing stuff into designated positions. Order formed out of entropy. The order of that stuff adds up to more than the sum of its parts. That order is architecture – a cultural act that makes the stuff mean something.
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