In the same way 8-bit Pop Culture learned from 8-bit Music, 8-bit Architecture must learn from its cousins and differentiate itself from them. Applying the same kind of selective reduction, cutting open the box and reprogramming the core, will not achieve satisfactory results in architecture. Architecture has space, light, walls, floors and ceilings. In the mix of media and architecture these elements need a place. 8-bitting Architecture, then, would not be a technique nor a design method, but a design philosophy, a desire and ability to make 21 st century artifacts part of a lived experience while still acknowledging their alien presence.

8-bit Architecture is the smart house that thinks about itself. 8-bit Architecture is uncomfortable. 8-bit Architecture molds technology into itself to become what neither architecture nor technology could be alone. 8-bit Architecture is the SpaceLab renovation the space engineers never imagined. 8-bit Architecture is an abandoned CleanRoom reused as a skating rink. 8-bit Architecture is the anti-sublime, it is disciplined high tech, a constrained utopia. 8-bit Architecture seeks to generate an exception to the rule of the convenience of automation; it makes aware of the comforts taken for granted and actively makes apparent that which is not. In its limit, 8-bit Architecture needs no (information processing) technology at all. Its methods include contradiction and juxtaposition; it lives where weeds and iron meet.