Fragments of architecture (bits of walls, of rooms, of streets, of ideas) are all one actually sees. These gragments are like beginnings without ends. There is always a split between fragments that are real and fragments that are virtual, between memory and fantasy. These splits have no existence other than being the passage from one fragment to another. They are relays rather than signs. They are traces. They are in-between.It is not the clash between these contradictory fragments that counts, but the movement between them. And this invisible movement is neither a p art of language nor of strcuture (language or structure are words specific to a mode of reading architecture that does not fully apply in the context of pleasure); it is nothing but a constant and mobile relationship inside language itself.
- Bernard Tschumi, Architecture and Disjunction, p. 95.
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