Statement 7

There is no Archimedean point by which one can understand the modernity of ‘architecture.’ Not in the history of its aesthetics, materials, labor, or even in its self-professed critiques. And yet a building as it stands in the landscape is not a contradiction. On the contrary, it speaks unambiguously. But about what? The more one studies it, or - better stated, fights against its foreclosures - the more one realizes it has an almost magical place in contemporary culture. But if in one breath it is magical, in the next it is scandalous.