Baudrillard

OK so I found this. This isn't a Baudrillard quote, it's from an online piece called The Possibility of Hypersimulation in Architecture by Antti Ahlava. I tried to just put a short quote from the whole thing so that no-one gets intimidated COUGH*JIMMY*COUGH.

In the hypersimulation of architecture, life would surpass experience. The kind of architecture which is lived and not experienced, is the kind of architecture inside which people are born, grow up, and die. It is a social field […]

In hypersimulation, spatial experience is statistically replaced as a “control field”, “digital space”, architecture by numbers, measures, and costs, and no longer by a geometrically defined space [...] the architecture formed by building standards and contemporary textbooks on architecture design is hypersimulation, for they substitute architecture by what is more real than architecture as geometry: architecture as statistics. As stated in the housing design textbook by Kahri and Pyykönen employed in the Department of Architecture in the Helsinki University of Technology, a dwelling is “a place for executing dwelling activities”. Furthermore, the dwelling activities are categorised according to the purpose of the rooms. The statistics make even architecture “a space of indifference”.

If we are interested in all this theory there's a lot of reading we should do. Really.