In the last days I was wondering how houses and cities would look in a « social network society ». Today I found an answer in this post from Creative Class and this article from New york Times.

They talk about a house built by Clive Wilkinson, the architect of Google headquarters. While in the « Magic Highway » movie the family went almost everywhere without meeting anyone, in Clive Wilkinson’s architecture everything is made in order to facilitate informal meetings.  A big door puts the visitor directly into the heart of the house, a Living room-Garden-Swimming pool. All the other rooms revolve around this space: the kitchen, the guestroom and the master bedroom.