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page034from Building Ideasmight itself be operating as a mechanically developing process, that forms the background to the rise of the machine age in architecture. These ideas paved the way for the eventual assimilation of new technologies into architecture – resolving some of the “confusion” caused by the innovations of the nineteenth century – and it is these ideas that must be considered next in a effort to understand the background to more recent architectural developments.
The Mechanical Universe – Vesalius, Copernicus and Bacon
The two philosophical sources for the dominance of the mechanistic model in twentieth century architecture concern what were traditionally two of the greatest mysteries of the pre-modern world, the first of which is spatial and the second temporal. Probably since the dawn of human consciousness the question of the spatial structure of the physical universe and of the objects found within it has been a source of considerable intrigue and speculation. Much of the world’s mythological and religious thinking has addressed the persistent mysteries of why things are the way they are and why they behave in the way they do. By the same token, a similar amount of creative energy has been expended on the question of why some things seem to change with the passage of time while others perpetually appear the same. More recently, however, both science and philosophy have attempted to answer both of these intriguing and fundamental questions by applying a similar model of the mechanistic system – first by considering the universe and its contents as machines and the second by suggesting that history itself follows a mechanical and directed evolution towards a goal. The first two notable landmarks in the advance of this modern view occurred in 1543, when two men produced, completely independently of each other, two remarkably symmetrical innovations. The first, the Italian astronomer Copernicus’ book called On the Revolution of the Planets, placed the sun, rather than the earth, at the centre of the known universe and thus began a revolution in our understanding of astronomy. The other was product of a different style of research
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