Tuesday, July 18, 2006

The Curse of Storage

The Curse of Storage by Momus

I've been thinking about the parallel between object storage and information storage -- apartments and computers -- ever since visiting an interesting exhibition at London's Barbican last month.

Future City looks at experiment and utopia in architecture over the last 50 years. I was particularly impressed by a quote from Japanese metabolist architect Kiyonori Kikutake. "A Japanese room is determined by information," Kikutake was quoted as saying, "whereas a Western room relies on objects."