Sam Jacob, Make It Real: Architecture as Enactment (Moscow: Strelka Press, 2012)
ā[ā¦] the āwill of an epoch made into spaceā, as Mies put it. Real, in the sense that it is the landscape that we inhabit. The perfect registration between these two states provides architecture with its own supernatural power: its prosaic appearance cloaks its mythic, imaginative origins entirely.ā 9-10
āLike a mythical beast, architecture emerges from the psycho-cultural landscape of its social, political and economical circumstances.ā 10
āIn this freewheeling rewriting of the past, architecture uses history as a slingshot into the future.ā 13
āArchitecture, then, mythologises its own creation while making a historical argument for itself and proposing a future worldāall within the substance of its own body.ā 13-14
āThrough re-enactment, architecture rewrites itself, making fictions a part of the real landscape that surrounds us.ā 14 (Eviction, destruction, rebuild, repeat... and deconstruct, build, repeat)
āUsing powers of cultural fiction rather than imaginary technology, architecture mobilises the same potential as science fiction: the possibility of manufacturing multiple versions of the future out of the past.ā 14-15
āThough the buildings [at Greenfield Village] are real, they manufacture a fiction th[r]ough Fordās collapsing of space and time.ā 21 (Narita Airport and Community Historical Museum)
