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Title: Terminal Architecture (Essays in Art and Culture) by Martin Pawley ISBN: 1-86189-018-4 Publisher: Reaktion Books Pub. Date: September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Summary: A FUTURIST GUIDE TO FICTIONAL AND EPHEMERAL ARCHITECTURE!
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This thesis, Terminal Architecture by Martin Pawley, supports the trend in architecture towards "formlessness" as a post-postmodern cultural expression. Formlessness denies material and structure while embracing landscape and activity. Pawley begins a discourse on what "terminal landscapes" might contain. "Sheds", "large single storey buildings", and "stealth buildings" are metaphors. Other images might be "Monster houses", museums, cafes, and "dogs". Toyo Ito suggests the fictional and ephemeral.

Pawley describes two images, "Terminal 1... where the art-historical notion of architecture is conducted to its grave", and "Terminal 2... machine art, an abstract tartan grid made up of overlaid networks... buildings like distribution centers, factories and petrol stations that are reserved as instruments." The strength in this autonomous yet interconnected Terminal Architecture form of "city states" or post-urban pods in America is described in detail by Robert Kaplan, in An Empire Wilderness, 1998.

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The vision described in Terminal Architrecture is apocalyptic... it will be free to exploit the products of research and development in every developing field of technology, living like a parasite upon the body of all productive industry, from aerospace to biotechnology- a paperless profession that will travel light, relying on electronic brainwork instead of voodoo symbolism and the tribal taboo of the past.

Copyright 1999 Robert Hotten