Inhabiting machines makes a critical review of the book written by Jorge Gallego and published in 2022, emphasizing the structure and content of the document and highlighting the work on the visibilization of installations as a subject that cannot be postponed in architecture. Emphasis is placed on the methodology of analysis of the selected cases and an argument is proposed from the introduction and prologue, which moves the installations from a technical problem to a major resource within the projection and construction of architecture and the city and which is necessary to face the climate crisis.