Sam Jacob, Make It Real: Architecture as Enactment (Moscow: Strelka Press, 2012)
‘[…] the ‘will of an epoch made into space’, 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.’ 9-10
‘Like a mythical beast, architecture emerges from the psycho-cultural landscape of its social, political and economical circumstances.’ 10
‘In this freewheeling rewriting of the past, architecture uses history as a slingshot into the future.’ 13
‘Architecture, then, mythologises its own creation while making a historical argument for itself and proposing a future world—all within the substance of its own body.’ 13-14
‘Through re-enactment, architecture rewrites itself, making fictions a part of the real landscape that surrounds us.’ 14 (Eviction, destruction, rebuild, repeat... and deconstruct, build, repeat)
‘Using 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.’ 14-15
‘Though the buildings [at Greenfield Village] are real, they manufacture a fiction th[r]ough Ford’s collapsing of space and time.’ 21 (Narita Airport and Community Historical Museum)
