{"id":16744,"date":"2017-01-19T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/architizer.wpengine.com\/techs-new-architecture\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T07:42:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T11:42:40","slug":"techs-new-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/architizer.com\/blog\/practice\/details\/techs-new-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Architecture, According to Big Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Architizer is building tech tools to help power your practice:\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/go.architizer.com\/architect_join\/?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=cta&amp;utm_campaign=techs-new-architecture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Click here to sign up now<\/em><\/a><em>. Are you a manufacturer looking to connect with architects?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/go.architizer.com\/manufacturer_join\/?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=cta&amp;utm_campaign=techs-new-architecture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Who doesn\u2019t want to be free? Free from rules, from constraints, from doubts or worry. Free from what is holding you back from being truly happy. Free just to be.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one of America\u2019s founding impulses, and it\u2019s shaping our lives now maybe more then ever thanks to freedom-seeking tech companies. In 1999, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PayPal_Mafia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk and Peter Thiel co-founded PayPal<\/a> to free up financial transactions and allow people to fluidly exchange money online around the world. Almost 20 years later, the two are now leading tech\u2019s charge to build cities and colonize spaces where corporations can innovate without pesky government regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Thiel, a vocal libertarian who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UTJB8AkT1dk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endorsed Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention<\/a>, has tried to build a city on an island in international waters where a tribe of techies would be free to experiment without oversight or pessimism. Musk, a more moderate type, is instead leading Silicon Valley\u2019s flight into space while also trying to make domestic solar power feasible to liberate customers from fossil fuels (and government-controlled power grids). They, like many of tech\u2019s most famous figures, have gone from humble programmers who brilliantly solved early problems of the internet to polished, color-corrected captains of industry, dictating their visions on everything from education to health care to architecture.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\n\t<img class=\"lazy\"\n\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/architizer\/assets\/images\/blank.png\"\n\t\tdata-src=\"https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484709504626https-2F2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com2Fuploads2Fcard2Fimage2F977102FScreen_Shot_2016-05-25_at_2.06.00_PM.png?fit=max&#038;w=1680&#038;q=60&#038;auto=format&#038;auto=compress&#038;cs=strip\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-srcset=\"https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484709504626https-2F2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com2Fuploads2Fcard2Fimage2F977102FScreen_Shot_2016-05-25_at_2.06.00_PM.png?fit=max&amp;w=1680&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 1680w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484709504626https-2F2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com2Fuploads2Fcard2Fimage2F977102FScreen_Shot_2016-05-25_at_2.06.00_PM.png?fit=max&amp;w=1080&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 1080w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484709504626https-2F2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com2Fuploads2Fcard2Fimage2F977102FScreen_Shot_2016-05-25_at_2.06.00_PM.png?fit=max&amp;w=760&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 760w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484709504626https-2F2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com2Fuploads2Fcard2Fimage2F977102FScreen_Shot_2016-05-25_at_2.06.00_PM.png?fit=max&amp;w=625&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 625w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484709504626https-2F2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com2Fuploads2Fcard2Fimage2F977102FScreen_Shot_2016-05-25_at_2.06.00_PM.png?fit=max&amp;w=368&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 368w\"\n\t\t\tsizes=\"(min-width: 1680px) 1680px,(min-width: 1080px) 1080px,(min-width: 760px) 760px,(min-width: 625px) 625px,368px\"\n\t\t\t\talt=\"\"\n\t\titemprop=\"contentUrl\"\n\t>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><i> Peter Thiel and Elon Musk; photo courtesy AP Photo\/Paul Sakuma<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Musk and Thiel have become the two paradigmatic figures of tech in the post\u2013Steve Jobs world. Musk has taken up Jobs\u2019s oracular showmanship, and Thiel, his irascible contrarianism. Whether others are following their lead or are just more reticent about the ambitions Musk and Thiel flagrantly advertise is up for debate, but what is clear is that they both give a taste of tech\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Thiel came to national attention by supporting Trump at the Republican National Convention, but he\u2019s turned heads before by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2016\/11\/nick-denton-peter-thiel-plot-to-murder-gawker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">funding the suit that bankrupted Gawker<\/a> and by advocating retrograde political positions like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato-unbound.org\/2009\/04\/13\/peter-thiel\/education-libertarian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying that it is impossible to be optimistic about politics when women have the right to vote<\/a>. But he has architectural ambitions, too. The HBO series \u201cSilicon Valley\u201d lampooned his vision for \u2018seasteading,\u2019 an idea for a libertarian island paradise on a platform in the open ocean. Fans of the show will remember it as where Jared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iPlelGS_n5M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ended up when he was trapped inside Peter Gregory\u2019s self-driving car<\/a>. Neurotic investor Peter Gregory is supposedly based on Thiel, although the character is a restrained version of the divisive figure Thiel has become.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\n\t<img class=\"lazy\"\n\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/architizer\/assets\/images\/blank.png\"\n\t\tdata-src=\"https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484709527895Seasteading-From-DeltaSync-Blimp-min.png?fit=max&#038;w=1680&#038;q=60&#038;auto=format&#038;auto=compress&#038;cs=strip\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-srcset=\"https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484709527895Seasteading-From-DeltaSync-Blimp-min.png?fit=max&amp;w=1680&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 1680w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484709527895Seasteading-From-DeltaSync-Blimp-min.png?fit=max&amp;w=1080&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 1080w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484709527895Seasteading-From-DeltaSync-Blimp-min.png?fit=max&amp;w=760&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 760w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484709527895Seasteading-From-DeltaSync-Blimp-min.png?fit=max&amp;w=625&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 625w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484709527895Seasteading-From-DeltaSync-Blimp-min.png?fit=max&amp;w=368&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 368w\"\n\t\t\tsizes=\"(min-width: 1680px) 1680px,(min-width: 1080px) 1080px,(min-width: 760px) 760px,(min-width: 625px) 625px,368px\"\n\t\t\t\talt=\"\"\n\t\titemprop=\"contentUrl\"\n\t>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><i>Seasteading; image courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seasteading.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Seasteading Institute<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Thiel first proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seasteading.org\/architectural-design-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seasteading<\/a> in his 2009 essay \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato-unbound.org\/2009\/04\/13\/peter-thiel\/education-libertarian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Education of a Libertarian<\/a>\u2019 as a way to establish a libertarian paradise where inventors could develop new technologies without pesky bureaucrats trying to ruin their fun. Thiel argued that there were three possible domains for libertarian freedom: The first, the internet, was already over-regulated; the second, space, was still too hard to get to; which left the third, the open ocean, where no government had jurisdiction and a free life would be possible.<\/p>\n<p>Thiel has since shied away from the idea, deeming it too expensive, and his focus seems to have returned back to the shore, where he has become an advisor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/11\/fashion\/peter-thiel-donald-trump-silicon-valley-technology-gawker.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and hand-holder<\/a>, to Trump. Thiel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-07-21\/the-strange-politics-of-peter-thiel-trump-s-most-unlikely-supporter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">believes America can start over after Trump clears out the establishment<\/a>, presumably leaving tech\u2019s great genius businessmen free to usher in a new world order \u2014 and build floating cities. He has recently helped to orchestrate a meeting between Trump and various Silicon Valley CEOs, perhaps signaling both a thaw between the president and a sector that heavily opposed him during the election and a place of privilege for Thiel in Trump\u2019s America.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\n\t<img class=\"lazy\"\n\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/architizer\/assets\/images\/blank.png\"\n\t\tdata-src=\"https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484710082447vice-president-elect-mike-pence-looks-on-as-president-elect-donald-trump-shakes-the-hand-of-peter-th_1.jpeg?fit=max&#038;w=1680&#038;q=60&#038;auto=format&#038;auto=compress&#038;cs=strip\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-srcset=\"https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484710082447vice-president-elect-mike-pence-looks-on-as-president-elect-donald-trump-shakes-the-hand-of-peter-th_1.jpeg?fit=max&amp;w=1680&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 1680w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484710082447vice-president-elect-mike-pence-looks-on-as-president-elect-donald-trump-shakes-the-hand-of-peter-th_1.jpeg?fit=max&amp;w=1080&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 1080w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484710082447vice-president-elect-mike-pence-looks-on-as-president-elect-donald-trump-shakes-the-hand-of-peter-th_1.jpeg?fit=max&amp;w=760&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 760w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484710082447vice-president-elect-mike-pence-looks-on-as-president-elect-donald-trump-shakes-the-hand-of-peter-th_1.jpeg?fit=max&amp;w=625&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 625w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484710082447vice-president-elect-mike-pence-looks-on-as-president-elect-donald-trump-shakes-the-hand-of-peter-th_1.jpeg?fit=max&amp;w=368&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 368w\"\n\t\t\tsizes=\"(min-width: 1680px) 1680px,(min-width: 1080px) 1080px,(min-width: 760px) 760px,(min-width: 625px) 625px,368px\"\n\t\t\t\talt=\"\"\n\t\titemprop=\"contentUrl\"\n\t>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><i>Donald Trump and Peter Thiel; photo courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/26329-peter-thiel-elon-musk-donald-trump-all-the-same-nytimes-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inverse.com<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk, Thiel\u2019s PayPal co-founder, did not give up on outer space as quickly as his former colleague. The spectacle-loving, real-life Tony Stark founded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SpaceX<\/a> with the goal of sending colonists to Mars. Another tech billionaire, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, has joined in this dream with his own company Blue Origin, setting off an unexpected space race between people who owe their fortunes to making it easier to order bric-a-brac online.<\/p>\n<p>While neither has publicly espoused Thiel\u2019s vision for a libertarian extraterrestrial society, such a dream is a plausible explanation for why these people should take on such an incredibly expensive and risky project that may not generate profit for decades. Even if Musk says that he wants to colonize Mars for nothing more than to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/09\/elon-musk-colonize-mars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">save humanity<\/a>&#8221; (thanks!), it\u2019s hard not to see the parallels between his work and Thiel\u2019s words.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\n\t<img class=\"lazy\"\n\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/architizer\/assets\/images\/blank.png\"\n\t\tdata-src=\"https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/148470959686439a_aerial1.jpg?fit=max&#038;w=1680&#038;q=60&#038;auto=format&#038;auto=compress&#038;cs=strip\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-srcset=\"https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/148470959686439a_aerial1.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=1680&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 1680w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/148470959686439a_aerial1.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=1080&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 1080w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/148470959686439a_aerial1.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=760&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 760w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/148470959686439a_aerial1.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=625&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 625w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/148470959686439a_aerial1.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=368&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 368w\"\n\t\t\tsizes=\"(min-width: 1680px) 1680px,(min-width: 1080px) 1080px,(min-width: 760px) 760px,(min-width: 625px) 625px,368px\"\n\t\t\t\talt=\"\"\n\t\titemprop=\"contentUrl\"\n\t>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><i>SpaceX; photo courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-orders-spacex-crew-mission-to-international-space-station\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Back on the ground, Musk has developed the two most architecturally significant products to come out of Silicon Valley: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tesla.com\/powerwall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Powerwall<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tesla.com\/solar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Solar Roof<\/a>. The two are meant to make solar power efficient for single-family homes. One of the biggest drawbacks of solar power is that it generates electricity inconsistently. It works great on a sunny day, but at night or in bad weather, there\u2019s no spark.<\/p>\n<p>The Powerwall is a battery adapted from Tesla\u2019s electric cars that lets customers store power from peak generation times so that it can be used whenever, making it possible that millions of homes could generate all of their own electricity, should they have the proper solar panels. The Solar Roof aims to make that a reality by installing solar cells in what appear to be typical roof shingles. The two products together could, hypothetically, liberate customers from the national power monopolies and fossil fuels; a win for freedom and the ice caps that would radically change electrical infrastructure around the world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\n\t<img class=\"lazy\"\n\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/architizer\/assets\/images\/blank.png\"\n\t\tdata-src=\"https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484709597196models_powerwall2x.jpg?fit=max&#038;w=1680&#038;q=60&#038;auto=format&#038;auto=compress&#038;cs=strip\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-srcset=\"https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484709597196models_powerwall2x.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=1680&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 1680w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484709597196models_powerwall2x.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=1080&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 1080w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484709597196models_powerwall2x.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=760&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 760w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484709597196models_powerwall2x.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=625&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 625w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484709597196models_powerwall2x.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=368&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 368w\"\n\t\t\tsizes=\"(min-width: 1680px) 1680px,(min-width: 1080px) 1080px,(min-width: 760px) 760px,(min-width: 625px) 625px,368px\"\n\t\t\t\talt=\"\"\n\t\titemprop=\"contentUrl\"\n\t>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><i>Tesla\u2019s Powerwall; image courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/insideevs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inside EVs<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>How do these two compare to the rest of Silicon Valley? It looks like the other tech billionaires are starting to catch up to them. Larry Page, Alphabet CEO, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/5\/15\/4334356\/larry-page-wants-to-set-aside-a-part-of-the-world-for-experimentation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has talked about setting aside a part of the world for free experimentation<\/a>, and Sidewalk Labs, an Alphabet subsidiary, is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/10\/18\/13316500\/sidewalk-labs-google-alphabet-smart-city-transportation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in the business of building a \u2018smart city\u2019 that would be a showcase of digital urban infrastructure<\/a>. True to Google\u2019s motto, \u201cDon\u2019t be evil,\u201d this Sidewalk city seems to have a better intention than Thiel\u2019s, or at least a better pitch. It\u2019s a place where technologies could be perfected before being unleashed into the world, a sort of beta lab rather than an alternate reality.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\n\t<img class=\"lazy\"\n\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/architizer\/assets\/images\/blank.png\"\n\t\tdata-src=\"https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484709596869maxresdefault.jpg?fit=max&#038;w=1680&#038;q=60&#038;auto=format&#038;auto=compress&#038;cs=strip\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-srcset=\"https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484709596869maxresdefault.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=1680&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 1680w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484709596869maxresdefault.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=1080&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 1080w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484709596869maxresdefault.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=760&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 760w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484709596869maxresdefault.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=625&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 625w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1484709596869maxresdefault.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=368&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 368w\"\n\t\t\tsizes=\"(min-width: 1680px) 1680px,(min-width: 1080px) 1080px,(min-width: 760px) 760px,(min-width: 625px) 625px,368px\"\n\t\t\t\talt=\"\"\n\t\titemprop=\"contentUrl\"\n\t>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><i>Musk showing off a Solar Roof tile; photo courtesy Tesla<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Obviously cities and buildings of the future will incorporate technology that will make our lives better, and we will owe much to these billionaires and their companies for introducing innovations like driverless cars or totally clean electricity. But right now, our future homes are being shaped by a handful of iconoclasts who want to operate outside of government oversight. Why should the inventors of PayPal, of all things, be the ones to decide how our homes will get power or how we will live in space?<\/p>\n<p>Architects and urbanists may be the public\u2019s best hope for presenting a humane and socially responsible vision for tomorrow\u2019s technologies. Now they just need to do it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Architizer is building tech tools to help power your practice:\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/go.architizer.com\/architect_join\/?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=cta&amp;utm_campaign=techs-new-architecture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Click here to sign up now<\/em><\/a><em>. 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