Con‐textual Devices and MachiNet(Works)

California‐based architectural educator Bryan Cantley has pursued the analogy of the machine consistently since his days as a student in Los Angeles. Over the last few decades, he has developed an instantly recognisable style, as he investigates the interstices of the virtual and the actual and all the mixed realities in‐between. Here he describes his working methods and creative preoccupations that ferment into a hot, heady broth of architectural speculation.