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Article: Architecture without walls: notes on the home and office, Atelier in situ and Discreet Logic.
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- Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine
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- October 1, 1999
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The commonplace that computer and communicational technologies have collapsed space should not be limited to the sense that they have contracted distance, but also that they overwhelm spatial division and compartments. This produces not only spatial dislocation (like the intimate cell-phone conversation held in the supermarket aisle) but also divisional collapse: as when a once-specialized loses its dedicated purpose and becomes multi-faceted and multi-layered in its functioning. I'm thinking in particular of the tele-distanced, wired up, fully equipped and furnished oxymoronic "home office." (It is a vestigial Marxist notion that new technologies are on the side of an ...
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