A Tortured Justification For Designing Torture Machines (Trees And Things)

postillion: Outdated?

Sat, 9 Feb 2008 01:29:55 EST

I thought that much of the torture that's practised these days were done with readily available resources and without specialized equipment (such as handcuffing someone into a position that makes it hard to breathe, or using water to force the victim into

thefadd: Re: A Tortured Justification For Designing Torture

Wed, 6 Feb 2008 17:38:38 EST

"...the art deco accents symbolize the lost ideals of a social order that must employ torture, just as the art deco period itself represented a time of great triumph in design only to be overtaken by the nihilist order of brutalism. Moving onto the base no

tomc: Re: A Tortured Justification For Designing Torture

Wed, 6 Feb 2008 17:21:23 EST

"This is a 12-story block combining classical neo-Georgian features with the efficiency of modern techniques. The tenants arrive here and are carried along the corridor on a conveyor belt in extreme comfort, past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towa

Lou: The Market is always open

Wed, 6 Feb 2008 16:55:37 EST

but there could equally well be sadists who would take pleasure in contemplating torture and who indeed, might even wind up actually using the machines that they build.

Or selling Brutalist movement before your link. Brutalism is ugly and dehumanizing by design, whereas the Stata Center is basica

profwhat: Ethics for architects

Wed, 6 Feb 2008 11:55:24 EST

Every profession needs to learn ethics, and architects are no exception. While there might be better ways to teach ethics to architecture students, this assignment could be a powerful illustration of the proclivity of architects to blithely accept as

joshv: It's been done

Wed, 6 Feb 2008 11:28:39 EST

Fully operational architectural torture device: MIT's Stata Center

gerrymander: Three words to an 'A'

Wed, 6 Feb 2008 10:58:34 EST

It requires the students to design a fully operational torture device.

Barbara Streisand iPod.

skeptic: Pretty Weird

Wed, 6 Feb 2008 10:05:39 EST

I agree with the critics of this school assignment that it is just too susceptible to misinterpretation. The act of designing a torture machine does not in itself imply a revulsion toward torture, it might suggest the opposite. There could be p