Questions are for philosophers. Expressions are for artists. The built future will unfold with the architecture of statement; design transgression beyond the ordinary conceptions of possibility, straight from the realm of imagination. What functions as an industrial wine making facility will simultaneously offer multiple options of gathering, exploration and edutainment. In a world where ideas go from their inspired roots and become reality with so little time in between that they seem to be one process, this will be the future that we not only shape, but in turn, will continue to shape us. From ‘the home’ to ‘the factory,’ boundaries will be increasingly faded, and a blurring between functionality will become the norm. The flow of information will facilitate, as much as the ecological consideration dictates, that people live in the same place as they produce work. They will educate themselves in the same places they entertain. Zoning will become an archaic artifact reminiscent of a time when black smoke billowed next to neighborhoods. The frontier of the future isn’t space, but rather the internal expanses of our Mind, mapped upon the landscape. Part industry, part temple offering, part theater gallery, the building is a statement of enthusiasmos, the dream of an archilosophist.
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