Mitchel (1998) also promotes the idea of dematerialisation, in Antitectonics: The Poetics of Virtuality discussing the conflict between virtual and architectural. The virtual world's utopian world is seen as a positive. The statement of "less is more" famously said by Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe can exaggerated to possible state that virtual is infinite. However, programmable space initiates an unstable relationship. No weight of matter creates an architectural dream where anything is possible and no restraints. But caught up in this new euphoric architectural utopia, Mitchel (1998, 211) states that architecture is the mediation of both domains, virtual and physical.
Mission Statement:
Today we see ourselves at an avoidable crossroad. The Information Age has brought a integration between mass and energy and an introduction to the virtual world: a world infinite, a world where everything and anything is possible. Architecture could be seen lying on its deathbed with the dematerialisation and visualization of the world but it is not like any organism it must evolve; mediating both physical and virtual domains developing itself as the interface.
Mitchel ,William. 1998. “Antitectonics: The Poetics of Virtuality”
The Virtual Dimension: Architecture, Representation and Crash Culture.
Edited by John Beckmann. p. 204 - 217. New York: Princeton Architectural Press
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