This brings up the extreme artifice of architecture. Architecture as such is useless; it does nothing but construct a place of difference, frame a place that is here and not there. Architecture comes into being in order that we recognize that much of reality is outside our frame, beyond our understanding. Architecture’s objects and images come into the world as substitutes, or, better, markers for that which is blocked from representation. So, then, architecture is all over, everywhere, insofar as architecture is an inaugural phenomenon of our being in the world.
Not sure where this came from: a small journal, maybe an article titled ” Some Thought on the Pathology of Architecture” by K. Michael Hayes?
