How will real estate change when standard, irreducible components, such as the 2 X 4, the brick, steel shapes, nails and screws arereplaced by microscopic parts and form, texture, color, and strength are defined at the cellular level?

 

The humanist tradition in architecture, which depends upon the reciprocal relationships between the body and buildings, will collapse as age-old standards of scale, proportion, and habitation become meaningless. Existing concepts of space and place may be discarded