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'Endless forms, vistas and hues': why architects should read science fiction

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Medium: journal article
Language(s): English
Published in: arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, , n. 2, v. 22
Page(s): 151-160
DOI: 10.1017/s1359135518000374
Abstract:

Most of an architect's life is concerned with that which has not yet taken place, both foreseeing the near future and expressing an intention of how this future world should be remade. However small the intervention, all design proposals are utopian works. With this in mind, this article is a celebration of the utopian potential of reading science fiction (SF); to make the familiar strange, to reveal fears about the future, to confront us with ourselves, and to shape the world we inhabit. It is an unabashed call from an architect and avid SF reader, for architects to raid the bookshelves for the most lurid cover and glaring font and lose themselves in the exuberant worlds of science fiction.

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    13/08/2019
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    06/03/2021
 
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