Chapter 4. Recombinant Architecture

As our bodies morph into cyborgs, the buildings that house them are also transforming. Increasingly, telecommunication systems replace circulation systems, and the solvent of digital information decomposes traditional building types. One by one, the familiar forms vanish. Then the residue of recombinant fragments yields up mutants.
* Facade / Interface
* Bookstores / Bitstores
* Stacks / Servers
* Galleries / Virtual Museums
* Theaters / Entertainment Infrastructure
* Schoolhouses / Virtual Campuses
* Hospitals / Telemedicine
* Prisons / Electronic Supervision Programs
* Banking Chambers / ATMs
* Trading Floors / Electronic Trading Systems
* Department Stores / Electronic Shopping Malls
* Work / Net-Work
* At Home / @Home
* Decomposition / Recombination
* Programmable Places

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