Architecture and comunication. An archeology of the mediator building

Abstract

The symbiosis between information & communication technologies (ICT) and architecture has led to the birth of new building types, as well as the eventual adherence of these to not bulky areas, but with high relevance in the order of the territory. These technological non-places have scheduled the course of historical events, although they have been often unnoticed. Radio space, WIFI space, air and maritime traffic control space,...etc., all have altered the First Nature cartography modeling hidden landscapes and architectures that respond to technological development. This paper traces critical historic survey on buildings that aroused under the constraints of optical, electrical, electronic and digital information transfers, from primitive military infrastructures to the ‘augmented’ architectures in which the overlap of digital and physical environment defines a new mediating architecture.