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NOX is a design office that produces videos, installations, a journal,
articles, and above all architecture. This hybrid production was a consequence of their unease with the
limited possibilities for development within the field of architecture and the notion that it had got stuck within the territory architecture had
created for itself. NOX has, by a sort of genetic engineering where architecture has been crossbred with other media, been able to put design on
a different track, a track where modern science, non-linear electronic media and theory have become interwoven - becoming especially clear
with H2O eXPO, the water museum designed for the Dutch Ministry of Water Management, of which construction started in March 1996.
Bringing in the computer at the first stages of the design process proved to be a way for the invention of an other architecture, a supple
architecture that has nestled itself in the transitional area of two, often thought of as parallel, worlds: one of biological organisms and the other,
as diverse as the first, the metallic and electronic fauna of modern technologies.
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