A Real Live Building

"300 years of technology came to an end after World War II. During those 3 centuries the model for technology was a mechanical one... Since the end of World War II, however, the model of technology has become the biological process, the events inside an organism. And in an organism, processes ... are organized around information."

Peter Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

In the Industrial Age, buildings resisted nature.
The shopping mall is the Industrial Age.
Step into my parlour said the developer to the shopper.
Remove the natural distractions, only windows to the sky.
Sit and watch the flow of people.
Construction was compressed and static.
Seal up the box, mechanize the air flow.
Resistance encourages disease.
Sick building, sick.
Passive and permanent.

In the Information Age, buildings come to life.
Living, growing, merging and flowering.
Responsible to the environment.
Responding to the environment.
Sit and watch the flow of buildings.
A new building response every minute of the day.
Moving to attract the sun like a leaf on a tree.
Filtering the light like the leaves on a tree.
Filtering the air like a leaf on a tree.
Tensile forces flowing in the breeze like a leaf on a tree.
A new building response every minute of the night.
Shopping has become an interactive, electronic network.
Buildings have too!


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