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Verticality, a Preamble

The living rocks cooled,
The wriggling fish washed ashore,
The birds and lizards fell
victim to a more fiery roar–
And so will mankind,
being once supreme,
be reduced to apes
by the machine.

Consider this a preamble to an upcoming article on verticality. A couple of cool articles:

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/rich-doyle-2

http://spacetimearchitecture.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/morphing-scale-to-imagine-habitation/

City Center DC development; GGN and Foster + Partners; 2006. Image via designboom.com.
ASRock motherboard. Image credit Darkone, via Wikimedia Commons, license CC BY-SA 2.5.

By the.vonz.himanen

Ivan Himanen is an architect, urbanist, and researcher based in New York City.

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