Silicon Valley Gets an Edifice Complex

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Silicon Valley has transformed technology and society. And they have done so in a region noted for its suburban regularity. That’s all about to change with the landing of Apple’s Norman Foster-designed “spaceship” in Cupertino and Frank Gehry’s vast building for Facebook in Menlo Park. Paul Goldberger, Paul Finch and Elina Shatkin explore the changes taking place and ask, are tech titans the new patrons of architecture?