Statement 5

The decisiveness of a building, its gravitational hold on the earth, belies the tangled web of realities that made it happen. For that reason, we need to always remind ourselves of the strange inversion that is in play as we approach that thing called ‘architecture.’ While the possibility of intelligibility is presented throughout (promised in the very idea of ‘research’  even if it is the pre-condition of intelligibility), the ‘architecture’ of the house seeks to preserve the secret that is at its core – at the core of its very sense of modernity - the repressed violence/productivity that makes it possible.