figures, doors & passages

"the cumulative effect of architecture during the last two centuries has been like that of a general lobotomy performed on society at large, obliterating vast areas of social experience. it is employed more and more as a preventative measure: an agency for peace, security and segregation, which by its very nature, limits the horizon of experience by reducing noise transmission, differentiating movement patterns, suppressing smells, cutting down the accumulation of dirt, impeding the spread of disease, veiling embarrassment, closeting indecency and abolishing the unneccesary, incidentally reducing daily life to a shadow play. but on the other side of this definition there is surely another kind of architecture that would seek to give full play to the things which have been so carefully masked by its anti-type; an architecture arising out of the deep fascination that draws people towards others; an architecture that recognises passion, carnality and sociality."
- dr. robin evans