gpehihpcl'upn with contributions by Michael Beigl Aaron Betsky Ole Bouman Neil Brown Ignacio Cirac Andrew Daley Dennis Del Favero David Deutsch Elizabeth Diller Winka Dubbeldam Georg Flachbart Monika Fleischmann Torsten Frohlich Dagan Gilat Sulan Kolatan Rolf Kruse William J. Mac Donald Holger Marten William J. Mitchell Kas Oosterhuis Hani Rashid Ivan Redi Andrea Schrottner Ricardo Scofidio Jeffrey Shaw Wolfgang Strauss Stuart A. Veech Tom Verebes Peter Weibel Peter Zoller sdii-gei tim GE ng Fiae^'ban*' and pq>-er ujeibel Birkhauser - Publishers for Architecture Basel Boston Berlin 3
Disappearing Architecture _From Real to Virtual to Quantum Editors Georg Flachbart and Peter Weibel Visual Concept and Design mind(21)factory for Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Design Stuttgart_Franl<furt/M_Berlin Georg Flachbart Thomas Nagel Lithography COMYK I Roland Merz Karlsruhe Production ZKM I Publications Ulrike Havemann Jens Lutz Miriam Sturner Cover Visual Winka Dubbeldam Archi-Tectonics, NYC "From Hardware to SoftForm" Illustration p. 2 Julie Rousset xplicit bin "I am many" Special Thanks xplicit ffm OkoMedia Stuttgart Silke MiJller A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress, Washington D.C., USA Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Bibliothek Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; Detailed bibliographic data is available in the Internet at http://dnb.ddb,de. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in other ways, and storage in data banks. For any kind of use, permission of the copyright owner must be obtained. 2005 Birkhauser - Publishers for Architecture, R 0. Box 133, CH-4010 Basel, Switzerland Part of Springer Science and Business Media Printed on acid-free paper produced from chlorine-free pulp.tcf oo Printed in Germany ISBN-10: 3-7643-7275-3 ISBN-13: 978-3-7643-7275-0 987654321 4
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EDn^pn^j 8 PREFACE _From the Editors COMPACT INTRO. 10 Disappearing Architecture _From Real to Virtual to Quantum Georg Flachbart Director, mind(2i)factory for Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Design, Stuttgart PART ONE _THE INFRASTRUCTURE Information Technology Infrastructure for Open, Distributed and Heterogeneous Application Environments 1.1 GENERAL APPROACH. i8 After the Revolution _Instruments of Displacement William J. Mitchell Head, Media Arts and Sciences at MIT Media Lab, Cambridge/Mass. 24 The Architecture of the Multiverse David Deutsch Researcher, Center for Quantum Computation at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University 1.2 SPECIAL REPORTS _THE NEXT-GENERATION COMPUTING. 32 Autonomic Computing _Building Self-managing Computing Systems Dagan Gilat Manager, Active Solutions, IBM Research Laboratory, Haifa 42 Grid Computing _Basis of Multi-institutional Virtual Organizations Holger Marten Managing Director of the Grid Computing Center Karlsruhe (GridKa), Institute for Scientific Computing at the Research Center Karlsruhe 52 Ubiquitous Computing _Computation Embedded in the World Michael Beigl Managing Director, Telecooperation Office (TecO), Institute for Telematics at the University of Karlsruhe 62 The Development of Quantum Hardware for Quantum Computing Andrew Daley, Ignacio Cirac, Peter Zoller Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck (Daley, Zoller) and Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching (Cirac) PART ZERO _THE ARCHITECTURE. Intersections of Real and Virtual Space in an Authentic Architecture of the Digital Era 0.1 GENERAL APPROACH, 80 Constructing an Authentic Architecture of the Digital Era William J. Mitchell Head, Media Arts and Sciences at MIT Media Lab, Cambridge/Mass. 90 A New Kind of Building Kas Oosterhuis Principal, ONL [Oosterhuis_Lenardl, Rotterdam 6
0.2 SPECIAL REPORTS.MODELS OF MIXED-REALITY ENVIRONMENTS. 118 Implosion of Numbers _Performative Mixed Reality Wolfgang Strauss, Monika Reischmann Directors, Media Arts Research Studies / MARS - Exploratory Media Lab, Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication, Sankt Augustin 132 Cybernarium _A Mixed-Reality Edutainment Center Torsten Frohlich, Rolf Kruse CTO/CEO Cybernarium Projektgesellschaft mbh, Darmstadt Fraunhofer Institute for Graphic Data Processing, Darmstadt 144 T_Visionarium _Towards a Dialogic Concept of Digital Narrative Dennis Del Favero, Nell Brown, Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel Institute for icinema Research, University of South Wales, Sydney ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe 152 Enhancing Spatiality _From HardWare to SoftForm Winka Dubbeldam Principal, Archi-Tectonics, New York City 162 The Relationship between Architecture and Virtual Media Ivan Redi, Andrea Schrottner Principals, ORTLOS architects, Graz 174 Architecture as a Media Catalyst Stuart A. Veech Principal, vma veech.media.architecture, Vienna 184 Architecture as a Habitable Medium Elizabeth Diller, Richardo Scofidio Principals, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, New York City 196 Impact of Network Logic on Space and its Making Sulan Kolatan, William 3. Mac Donald Principals, Kol/Mac Studio, New York City 206 Network Practice and the Products of Networking Tom Verebes Principal, ocean D, London, Boston, New York / AA Design Research Lab, London 218 Protospace 2.0 _The ICT-driven Collaborative Design Working Space Kas Oosterhuls Principal, ONL [Oosterhuis_Lenard], Rotterdam 236 Entering an Age of Fluidity Hani Rashid Principal, Asymptote, New York City SUMMING UP 250 From Box to Intersection.Architecture at the Crossroads Aaron Betsky Director, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam 258 Building Terminal _For an Architecture without Objectness Ole Bouman Editor-in-Chief, Archis Magazine, Amsterdam COMPACT EXTRO. 264 Architecture _From Location to Nonlocation, from Presence to Absence Peter Weibel Director, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe 7