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Hans Hollein: Everything Is Architecture
Limited and traditional definitions of architecture and its means have lost their validity. Today the environment as a whole is the goal of our activities—and all the media of its determination: TV…
In contrast, military planning left behind its connection to building to avail itself of new possibilities for satisfying the demands placed upon it.Obviously it no longer occurs to anyone to wall-in sewage canals or erect astronomical instruments of stone (Jaipur). Man will now finally be the center of the creation of an individual environment.The extension of the media of architecture beyond pure tectonic building and its derivations first led to experiments with new structures and materials, especially in railroad construction. Architects have to stop thinking in terms of buildings only.Built and physical architecture, freed from the technological limitations of the past, will more intensely work with spatial qualities as well as with psychological ones.
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