IBM Complex, Boca Raton, Florida, 1968-74 (Marcel Breuer) “[…] the dramatically patterned surfaces of IBM’s buildings were understood as metaphorical residues or imprints left upon architecture by the passage of IBM’s primary activity - data...

IBM Complex, Boca Raton, Florida, 1968-74

(Marcel Breuer)

“[…] the dramatically patterned surfaces of IBM’s buildings were understood as metaphorical residues or imprints left upon architecture by the passage of IBM’s primary activity - data processing or "pattern recognition” - through the medium of architecture.“ (112)

Read my brief review of John Harwood’s outstanding recent book The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945-1976:

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