William Mitchell, a longtime technophile and booster of the idea that computers could aid designers, died on June 11 in Boston of complications from cancer.
In books like Computer-Aided Architectural Design (1977), written after he got his master’s in architecture from Cambridge University, Mitchell predicted that PCs would soon revolutionize architecture. In later books, such as Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City (2003), Mitchell explored themes about how the ubiquity of cell phones forces people to use public spaces different from in the past.
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