Re: It takes tech to tango

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon May 05 2003 - 10:06:48 MDT

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    On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 02:35:44PM +0200, Amara Graps wrote:
    > It takes tech to tango
    > by Raul Barreneche May 2003
    >
    > http://www.popsci.com/popsci/hometech/article/0,12543,448268,00.html

    Nice reading. Bo01 had some interesting architecture and ideas:
    http://home.att.net/~amcnet/bo01.html
    http://www.turningtorso.com/ (rotating highrise building)
    http://www.europeanvillage.org/

    On the other hand, it also was an economic disaster - the lawsuits are still
    ongoing against Malmö city officials (this is also why the domain bo01.com
    is no longer registerd). But that is an issue of central planning, not the
    buildings themselves.

    An important idea for truly green architecture is that it should be simpler
    to live in than current buildings. As soon as you need to do something extra
    to be ecofriendly it either has to be ideologically driven or imposed from
    the outside, which is bad. I think
    http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.01/futuretekture_pr.html
    had the right ideas:

    Low-tech Green had been a self-defeating mess. So we automated it. Make the
    things do the Green thinking.

    Software - not the buildings themselves - is the heart and soul of the new
    city.

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