Requiem for an Architectural Dream

‘But the technological model for the multiscreen, multimedia presentation may have been provided by the War Situation Room, which was designed in those same years to bring information in simultaneously from numerous sources around the world so that the president and military commanders could make decisions. It is not without irony, in that sense, that the Eameses read the organization of the circus as a form of crisis control. In a circus, Charles said:’ ‘There is a strict hierarchy of events, and an elimination of choice under stress, so that one event can automatically follow another….There is a recognized mission for everyone involved. In a crisis there can be no question as to what needs to be done.’