Exploring the Unmaterial World
31 August 2000 - 10:00am
Will the Internet make architecture irrelevant? How does the global economy affect large-scale projects? What is junkspace? Wired Magazine talks to the world-famous architect Rem Koolhaas.
Wired Magazine talks to the world-famous architect Rem Koolhaas about theglobal economy, large-scale development, jettisoning traditional architectural values,the Internet, invisible networks of commerce and culture,virtual architecture, and junkspace."If space junk is the human debris that litters the universe, junkspace is the residue mankind leaves on the planet. The builtproduct of modernization is not modernarchitecture but junkspace."
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Wired, June 1, 2000
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