Statement 33

In architecture there is nothing that receives less thought than the corner. Hidden in plain sight it empowers the whole. And it is not just that it accepts and imposes the 90 degree as the angle of convenience. It speaks a language that unifies the abstractions of the metaphysics of geometry to the banal productions of the industrial machine. The corner is the seat of architecture’s teleology. Historically it marks the moment people in some parts of the world started building with mud bricks. It was the first building material that required dumb labor and it was a downward spiral since then.