our lingering myths

++ it was assumed that an origin for architecture existed
outside of the world and could not be reached by any
instrument of it (boullée, hegel)

++ it was assumed that an origin for architecture
existed in mimesis with technology
(gropius, le corbusier, mies van der rohe)

++ it was assumed that an origin for architecture existed
in the critical reflection of itself confronting itself
(venturi, eisenman, rossi)

++ the contemporary body is dismembered and laminated,
plural, colloidal. it exists at once between
layers of reality.

++ it looks out, slips around, and back in. its gaze is a
striated mirror and a part of itself, infinite reflections
of body-in-world-in-body. it is prosthetic with the
world.

++ the objects grow denser, more real, flickering monads,
unfolding sanctuaries suspended in the void.

++ it is assumed that an origin for architecture
does not exist.

++ architecture is, in fact, unconscious.