MECHUDZU

Form:uLA: Bryan Cantley

Mechudzu New Rhetorics for Architecture

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Temple of Laughter

“Hi, there. I want to talk to you about ducts. Do your ducts seem old-fashioned? Out of date? Central Services’ new duct designs are now available in hundreds of different colors to suit your individual taste.” Brazil (1985)

Exhaust manifold and Mechudzical sarcoma.

System view of on-line jack-in points, serving multiple purposes of street lighting, solar charging stations [LEED], and waste-management robotic assistant hubs.

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Machine-God to man? Human master to nonthinking robotic slave?

Just who is driving this thing?

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Temple of Architecture ... Church of the Machine.

Will you be an observer or occupant? Are you input or output? A new way to get “saved� ...

Deletion? Wash away your sin[thetic] past.

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The Authorship Device is read/write. It allows for the phenomena of observation and restructuration.

Rear Elevation. The Holo-Cube displays holographic interpretations of each chapter of the text.

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Study model of the Onderwerp. The self-constructing output device. An attempt at the visualization of the act of creation ... the Act of Architecture.

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Each of the four was built in exactly 24 hours.

As we attach to the innards of the host, so does it attach to the innards of its context.

Skinning the liebes.

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NSFW Series In search of the elusive destruction of the picture plane, these drawings showcase the surface scratch of the hybrid between that which is topo, that which is typo, and that which denotes architecture. Not suitable/safe for work (NSFW), not work-suitable/safe (NWS), or not school-suitable (NSS) is Internet slang typically used in e-mail, videos, and on interactive discussion areas (such as AIA events, awards ceremonies, or cocktail parties) to mark URLs or hyperlinks which may be architecturally explicit or include imagery containing experiments, helping the occupant or observer to avoid potentially objectionable content. Perhaps there are new categories: NSFA [not safe for architecture]; NSFAIA; NSFB [banality]; or just plain NS. NSFW has particular relevance for individuals conducting research on the Internet at workplaces or communities that have policies prohibiting (even inadvertent) access to architecturally explicit content. Companies and individuals frequently adopt such policies because they regard the presence of architecturally explicit content as a misuse of company property (or education resources) and, potentially, a violation of status quo policy.

These are dangerous. Do not observe without adult supervision. At no time attempt to inhabit the constructs.

The RIEA.ch book Series presents innovative research and experimental projects in architecture initiated and implemented both by RIEA and individual architects. It aims at exposing such work to a wide professional and lay public, in order to disseminate new ideas, establish constructive discourse, and encourage creative thinking and work in architecture and related fields. MECHUDZU is the sixth in this series of publications to focus on the work of an individual architect. www.riea.ch

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