The Action is the Form: Victor Hugo’s TED Talk
Strelka Press. Reprinted in Time Architecture and translated into Chinese by Wang Zigeng. Reprinted and translated into Spanish by Valeria Guzman. — 2012
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Space is a technology. Buildings and the cities they inhabit have become infrastructural—mobile, monetised networks. For the world’s power players, infrastructure space is a secret weapon. If Victor Hugo came back to give a TED talk, he might assert that architecture, once killed by the book, is reincarnate as something more powerful still—as information itself. If this space is a secret weapon, is it a secret best kept from those trained to make space?
