| PREFACE. From the Editors | 8 |
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| COMPACT INTRO | 10 |
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| Disappearing Architecture From Real to Virtual to Quantum | 10 |
| PART ONE. THE INFRASTRUCTURE: Information Technology Infrastructure for Open, Distributed and Heterogeneous Application Environments | 16 |
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| 1.1 GENERAL APPROACH | 18 |
| After the Revolution. Instruments of Displacement | 18 |
| The Architecture of the Multiverse | 24 |
| 1.2 SPECIAL REPORTS. THE NEXT-GENERATION COMPUTING | 30 |
| Autonomic Computing. Building Self-managing Computing Systems | 32 |
| Grid Computing. Basis of Multi-institutional Virtual Organizations | 42 |
| Ubiquitous Computing. Computation Embedded in the World | 52 |
| The Development of Quantum Hardware for Quantum Computing | 62 |
| PART ZERO. THE ARCHITECTURE: Intersections of Real and Virtual Space in an Authentic. Architecture of the Digital Era | 78 |
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| 0.1 GENERAL APPROACH | 80 |
| Constructing an Authentic Architecture of the Digital Era | 80 |
| A New Kind of Building | 90 |
| 0.2 SPECIAL REPORTS. MODELS OF MIXED-REALITY ENVIRONMENTS | 116 |
| Implosion of Numbers. Performative Mixed Reality | 118 |
| Cybernarium. A Mixed-Reality Edutainment Center | 132 |
| T_Visionarium. Towards a Dialogic Concept of Digital Narrative | 144 |
| Enhancing Spatiality. From HardWare to Soft Form | 144 |
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| The Relationship between Architecture and Virtual Media | 162 |
| Architecture as a Media Catalyst | 174 |
| Architecture as a Habitable Medium | 184 |
| Impact of Network Logic on Space and its Making | 196 |
| Network Practice and the Products of Networking | 206 |
| Protospace 2.0. The ICT-driven Collaborative Design Working Space | 218 |
| Entering an Age of Fluidity | 236 |
| SUMMING UP | 248 |
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| From Box to Intersection. Architecture at the Crossroads | 250 |
| Building Terminal For an Architecture without Objectness | 258 |
| COMPACT EXTRO | 264 |
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| Architecture From Location to Nonlocation, from Presence to Absence | 264 |
