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Every time you wheel a shopping cart through one of Walmart's more than 10,000 stores worldwide, or swipe your credit card or purchase something online, you enter a mind-boggling logistical regime. Even if you've never shopped at Walmart, its logistics have probably affected your life. The Rule of Logistics makes sense of its spatial and architectural ramifications by analyzing the stores, distribution centers, databases, and inventory practices of theworld's largest corporation. The Rule of Logistics tells the story of Walmart's buildings in the context of the corporation's entire operation, itself characterized by an obsession with logistics. Beginning with the company's founding in 1962, Jesse LeCavalier reveals how logistics--as a branch of knowledge, an area of work, and a collection of processes--takes shape and changes our built environment. Weaving together archival material with original drawings, LeCavalier shows how a diverse array of ideas, people, and things--military theory and chewing gum, Howard Dean and satellite networks, Hudson River School painters and real estate software, to name a few--are all connected through Walmart's logistical operations and in turn are transforming how its buildings are conceptualized, located, built, and inhabited. A major new contribution to architectural history and theory, The Rule of Logistics helps us understand how retailing today is changing our bodies, brains, buildings, and cities and predicts what future forms architecture might take when shaped by systems that exceed its current capacities.

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The most significant architectural spaces in the world are now entirely empty of people. The data centres, telecommunications networks, distribution warehouses, unmanned ports and industrialised agriculture that define the very nature of who we are today are at the same time places we can never visit. Instead they are occupied by server stacks and hard drives, logistics bots and mobile shelving units, autonomous cranes and container ships, robot vacuum cleaners and internet-connected toasters, driverless tractors and taxis. This issue is an atlas of sites, architectures and infrastructures that are not built for us, but whose form, materiality and purpose is configured to anticipate the patterns of machine vision and habitation rather than our own. We are said to be living in a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, in which humans are the dominant force shaping the planet. This collection of spaces, however, more accurately constitutes an era of the Post-Anthropocene, a period where it is technology and artificial intelligence that now computes, conditions and constructs our world. Marking the end of human-centered design, the issue turns its attention to the new typologies of the post-human, architecture without people and our endless expanse of machine landscapes.

Intelligence --- Robotique --- Systèmes de télécommunications --- Automatisation --- Art --- Architectuur --- machines [uitrusting] --- distributiecentra --- architectuur [objectgenre] --- Architecture --- Architecture and technology --- Data centers --- Warehouses --- Materials handling --- Plant layout --- Agricultural industries --- Artificial intelligence --- 72.039 --- Architectuur & technologie ; 21ste eeuw --- Smart cities --- Agribusiness --- Industries --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Facility layout --- Factories --- Factory layout --- Layout, Factory --- Layout, Plant --- Industrial engineering --- Production engineering --- Handling of materials --- Material handling --- Materials --- Mechanical handling --- Plant engineering --- Shipment of goods --- Distribution centers --- Storage buildings --- Storage warehouses --- Commercial buildings --- Physical distribution of goods --- Storage facilities --- Data libraries --- Datacenters --- Computer service industry --- Technology and architecture --- Technology --- Philosophy --- Architectuurgeschiedenis ; 2000 - 2050 --- Layout --- Design and construction --- Handling and transportation --- machines [general equipment] --- distribution centers --- architecture [object genre] --- Robotique. --- Systèmes de télécommunications. --- Automatisation. --- Art. --- Public buildings --- storage spaces --- Architecture - Philosophy --- distribution centers [built works]