I do not believe it is possible, nor that it makes sense, to design buildings that formally attempt to blur traditional structures, i.e., which display forms that lie somewhere between abstraction and figuration, or somewhere between structure and ornament, or that are cut-up, dislocated for aesthetic reasons. Architecture is not an illustrative art; it does not illustrate theories (I do not believe you can design deconstruction . . .). You cannot design a new definition of the city and its architecture. But you may be able to design the conditions that will make it possible for this non-hierarchical, non-traditional society to happen. By understanding the nature of our contemporary circumstances and the media processes that go with it, architects are in a position to construct conditions that will create a new city and new relationships between spaces and events. (Tschumi xx, 27)
(c) David Kolb, 1 August 2001