Through this book Betsky manifests the new abilities of the architectural body in the Information Technology era, in the most dedicated way. With a series of paradigms he identifies the present environment without rejecting it or trying to reform it. On the contrary he makes an efford to make sense, to understand, embrace and adjust to the emerging reality, looking for new processes to facilitate it, to work with it - like imagineering.
In his view a seamless entropic landscape is inhabited by cyborgs - our hybrid selves with all these gadgets to keep us hooked on various networks. Our landscape is organized around attractors and the highway becomes a physical manifestation of the change. New values are emerging like access and new symbols of our culture like the mall. Our materials are adjustable to the temporarily that rules.
Finally, we are transformed by this technology that we cannot see and architecture should communicate this to the people, who are confused about where and when.
In his view a seamless entropic landscape is inhabited by cyborgs - our hybrid selves with all these gadgets to keep us hooked on various networks. Our landscape is organized around attractors and the highway becomes a physical manifestation of the change. New values are emerging like access and new symbols of our culture like the mall. Our materials are adjustable to the temporarily that rules.
Finally, we are transformed by this technology that we cannot see and architecture should communicate this to the people, who are confused about where and when.
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