Exploring the Unmaterial World

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.

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August 31, 2000, 10:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

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."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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Thursday, June 1, 2000 in Wired

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