We are told that the “architecture of tomorrow” needs to be networked, collaborative and inclusive, drawing its inspiration from crowdsourcing, open access and mass customisation. But to do this “architecture must be put into the hands of people themselves” and the architect possibly “guillotined”. [...]
This is inflammatory stuff [...].
— bdonline.co.uk
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To bad it's behind a subscription wall...
I find it a tad paradoxical that it's an accepted fact that most people cannot effectively assemble a piece of Ikea furniture because "it's just too complicated" But imagine IKEA house for a minute, and then think about the jist of the snippet of article here... The results/consequences would be disastrous at best.
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Open source has its limits. With architecture it stops after information. Creation, Coordination and execution is the hard part and a wiki whatever can't provide that "service"....
Thanks Pete,
The comments were worth going back to read the whole thing, even the articles' author chimed in on it...
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