Translations from drawing.. II

"[Drawing through parallel] projection does not free anything, in the sense of emancipation. Things are just made more manipulable within the scope of drawing. For any material object to obtain freedom is for its handler to loose control of it, and that does not happen"

Holy Land

"Every map is a fiction. Every map offers choices.
It's even possible to choose something beautiful." *

Translations from drawing to building

"What might have occurred in architecture, but did not, occurred outside it... Of the works beyond architecture - earth art, performance, installation, constructions - which nevertheless deal with architectural themes, are remarkable not just for the fact that they make little or no use of drawing, but for the impossibility of their development through this medium."

The Suburban Cliché

"A comparison of average city and suburban neighborhoods often shows both inhibited by people living in single family houses who drive to work each morning. The differences between city and suburb are often indistinct... We must dispense with the cliché which puts city and suburb into opposition, and instead deal with the suburb in a variegated metropolitan context, distinguishing suburb from city by degree rather than kind"

I´m not there

"If a film were to exist in which the breadth and flux of a creative life could be experienced, a film that could open up as oppose to consolidating what we think we already know walking in, it could never be within the tidy arc of a master narrative. The structure of such a film would have to be a fractured one, with numerous openings and a multitude of voices, with its prime strategy being one of refraction, not condensation. Imagine a film splintered between seven separate faces — old men, young men, women, children — each standing in for spaces in a single life."