From Local to Global

"Together with little Alice we will slip past the smooth, cold surface of the looking-glass and find ourselves in a wonderland, where everything is at once so familiar and recognizable, yet so strange and uncommon."

Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass.

In the Industrial Age, your location was your marketplace.
You knew it well.
Lived there, loved there.
Culture and climate were evident.
Appearance was a mirror of it's creation.

In the Information Age, your location is irrelevant.
Your network is your marketplace.
Boundaries dissolve.
Countries disappear.
Cultures merge.
Climates remain.
Borrow a visual and it becomes a Disneyland.
Superceded by the environment.
The global is a local architecture.
Meet the needs of the people without meeting the people.
Fit into their world.
Stay at home and design away.
Where do you not want to work?


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