Table of Contents

Summary: This page is the Table of Contents page for the 'The Future of Architecture' Section.

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The Table of Contents is broken up into two sections:

1 Introduction: The Introduction provides a background context of the shift from the Industrial Age to the Information Age.
2 Design Trends: These design trends present a paradigm shift in thinking about architectue: the collision between the Industrial Age and the Information Age. Each page directly compares and contrasts this shift.
The prose-like form of this text is intended as a playful exploration of what is possible. As with all writing, your task as the reader is to translate the wors into personal meaning. As with all futures, no directions are clear-cut (except in hindsight) and there is always more than one meaning and more than one future to be had.

Introduction

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The Generals
A Typical Comparison
The Horseless Carriage
Going Beyond
A Mismatch of Technology
Midas and Medusa
From Industrial To Information
The Information Revolution
Properties of Information Part 1
Properties of Information Part 2

Design Trends

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Design IS the Product
Information IS the Design
From Buildings to Software
The Lifetime Design Brief
The Reincarnation of Building
Past, Present and Future
1,000,000 Buildings
DYO: Design Your Own
Client Design Systems
Drawing Board Architecture
Beyond the Esquisse
Beyond Plans
From 'What' to 'How'
Information Structure
The Clip Art Design Method
The Feedback Spiral
Building Systems
The Crystal Palace
From Handmade to Automation
From Monument to Temporary
The Functioning Aesthetic
Computer Modelling
A Real Live Building
A Pattern of Spatial Perception
From Centralization to Decentralization
The Urban Performance
Where It's At
From Flatland to Airspace
Materials and Colors
The Appearance of Things
The Beauty Myth
The Language of Architecture
A Pattern of Form Conception
Geometry
Design Systems
The House of Profits
Architecture as Information Business
From Specialist to Holistic
From Local to Global
Creating Change
No Comparison
The New How