digital dwelling

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i visited moishe safdie’s habitat yesterday, a 40-year-old futurist masterpiece that was a lot more exciting to walk through than a lot of crazy buildings. this dated vision of the future is still inhabited, in fact renovated, and it makes the point that you can design for customization in architecture: you’ll hardly notice all of the individual touches on the units of this building because it was designed to permit eclecticism, and the unique touches only add to the overall effect.

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