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In previous decades, architectural production was constrained by the limits of technology; architects pushed on the boundaries imposed by technology and it gave them common purpose. Those limits are gone. Over the preceding two decades it has been demonstrated that with enough technology (and money) anything is possible. What does an architect do when anything is possible? This is the question which confronts architects today, who now operate within a professional landscape where all is possible, but little has meaning. The “anything goes” mentality which currently prevails has resulted in innumerable self-referential “object” buildings which engage only with their architect’s ego, often resulting in an urban fabric of autonomous formal objects comprised of arbitrarily-applied design tropes which celebrate formal invention for its own sake. But what do architects leave society once the novelty of form has worn off? In this architectural age of arbitrary shape-making, devoid of context or meaning, Out of the Ordinary proposes an architecture of innovation rising from ordinary concerns, about relationships not form, which exposes new spatial relationships with diagrammatic clarity in a process of distillation what seeks to lay bare meaningful relationships between essential building elements.

72 RONAN --- 72.036 <73> --- 72.039 --- 72.039 Hedendaagse architectuur. Bouwkunst sinds 1960 --- Hedendaagse architectuur. Bouwkunst sinds 1960 --- 72.036 <73> Moderne bouwkunst. Architectuur van de 20e eeuw--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Moderne bouwkunst. Architectuur van de 20e eeuw--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Architecture, Modern --- Architecture --- Ronan, John, --- John Ronan Architects.

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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]