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The architectural ecosystem established by the iPhone as a prototype exhibits the utopian architecture ideal. Rather than the iPhone learning from architecture, architecture should learn from the iPhone to create a reciprocal relationship. The advanced construction of Apple store's tectonic elements(hardware and software) adapt, detect and monitor, to establish seamless connections between each element and feature, creating efficiencies through adaptable spaces, thereby serving its fundamental purpose of enhancing the collaboration of users. 

 

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is a common phrase. However, when architects become equipped with skills in engineering technology that parallel the exponential growth of socio-technical complexities, Architects can decenter the human. Only then could the hybrid collaboration of humans and non-humans constructed from the building blocks of technology offer new possibilities to evaluate the world's needs to reorganise the social, political and environmental systems. 

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Thus, for the architect,

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Apple. 2019a. New York Exterior crowd Fifth Avenue. edited by New York for the launch of the iPhone 11 series. People waiting outside Apple Fifth Avenue. Apple Newsroom: Apple Inc.

---. 2019b. NY team members welcomes first guests. edited by New York Apple Store team welcoming the first customers purchasing iPhone 11. Apple Newsroom: Apple Inc.

---. 2022. iPhone 14 Pro Max Back and Front View edited by iphone-14-pro-storage-select-202209-6-7inch-deeppurple.jpeg: Apple.

Apple v. Lancaster. California Northern District Court.

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Rouillard, Dominique. 2018. "Editorial: Megaspace structure Yona Friedman and Eckhard Schulze – Fielitz." Histories of Postwar Architecture 1 (3): 3-18. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2611-0075/8965. https://hpa.unibo.it/article/view/8965.

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Wiens, Kyle. 2022. iPhone 14 Pro Max Internal Architecture. edited by 14 pro max inside: iFixit.

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