Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth
To be able to float and move around and, pretty much effortlessly, do whatever you want with your body in space is pretty amazing.
Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
Sovereignty no longer resides in the territory itself, but in the control of the territory. And localisation is an inherent part of that territorial control.
If you have the ball, you must make the field as big as possible, and if you don't have the ball, you must make it as small as possible.
Possession of territory is not primarily about laws and contracts, but first and foremost a matter of movement and circulation.
What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the same reason. Outsider implies a kind of nobility.
Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.
