(((Some interesting takeaways here.)))
What are the new, physical architectural structures generated by the Net?
Gigantic, Amazon Mega Fulfillment Centers, underground server farms, Yahoo Store, fiber routes, colocation facilities. Real estate prices are increasingly influenced by access to fiber.
Banks as architectural entities, formerly very imposing, are dying and being hollowed-out all over the world. Replaced by ATMs and the net.
What stands in architecturally in between actual and virtual?
The Swisshouse: architecture as interface.
'Open Design' and its historical precursors:
Duchamp's "Rotating Glass Plates," 1930, as early interactive viewer-generated art.
Raymond Queneau's interactive booklet of 100,000,000,000,xxx poems.
Wikipedia.
Ohymnews with 40,000 active citizen reporters.
Linux.
Firefox.
The Cambridge Open Wall interactive wallpaper at the Carpenter Center absorbs words said next to it and displays them as text on a wall.
The Open Mirror Bathroom two-way Internet mirror that is
directly connected to AMIHOTORNOT.
The virtualization of everyday life is unavoidable.
Architectural typologies are changing in a physical/virtual convergence.
Architecture as interface is a new design paradigm: away from designing forms and artifacts, toward designing rules and parameters for forms and artifacts to emerge.
