Give me a Gun and I will Make All Buildings Move: An ANT?s View of Architecture

Abstract

Our building problem is just the opposite of Etienne Jules Marey’s famous inquiry into the physiology of movement. Through the invention of his “photographic gun” (Fig. 1) he wanted to arrest the flight of a gull so as to be able to see in a fixed format every single successive freeze-frame of a continuous flow of flight (Figs. 2, 3), the mechanism of which had eluded all observers until his invention. What we need is the reverse: the problem with buildings is that they look desperately stati...