The Open System

by Sidney Magee

Book Overview

When people look back on our time, what will they say was the Architecture that embodies its meaning and spirit? My candidate is not that of a building, but the open architecture of the IBM PC. Simple Building is a book I wrote about how to derive a new indigenous architecture, and one way to translate its principles into reality is an approach to building I call the Open System. My idea is to make a building like they made the PC: 1) a structural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439229678
• ISBN13: 9781439229675
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Author
• Length: 125 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.