Future Architecture by Technology . publication with projects by Dunne & Raby, J. Mayer H., Usman Haque, Toyo Ito, Cedric Price, realities:united, Adam Somlai-Fischer et al.

An office building whose façade changes at night into a gently pulsating play of colors; an apartment that lets us know when our loved one is coming home on the other side of the world; a house, which rather than shielding us from the outside world, allows us to put together our own soundtrack inside with sounds from “outside”...

What impact do new technological developments such as digitalization, the spread of the Internet, the miniaturization of computer processes, wireless technologies, or advances in speech recognition and biometrics have on architecture? Are we going to “arm” our houses with more and more electronic objects—from “intelligent” toasters to iPods? Will the integrated technologies remain invisible, as is the case in many of the so-called Smart Houses, or could they also become an architectural design medium? And above all: to what extent can spaces emerge through the integration of new technologies that move us and in the best cases, allow us to feel more “at home”? Can architecture offer an adequate response to the changing needs of a mobile, globally networked society?

Sensing Space presents projects, experiments, and perspectives on architecture and spaces of the future, including work by Dunne & Raby, G TECTS, Ruairi Glynn, J. Mayer H., Usman Haque, Toyo Ito, Cedric Price, realities:united, Adam Somlai-Fischer et al.

This publication was made possible by the generous support of our corporate partners Dornbracht, ERCO, and Miele.

Sensing Space—Future Architecture by Technology
edited by Franziska Eidner and Nadin Heinich
Jovis, Berlin 2009
160 pages, two-color, German/English
ISBN: 978-3-939633095-2