(Perspecta 24, 1988)
“Richardson clearly exults in . . . ambiguity . . . . He accepts (whether consciously or not) that buildings are both necessarily continuous and necessarily figurative. They are necessarily continuous, because they are part of a physically and temporally continuous world; they are necessarily figurative, because that is how we perceive things and represent them. These necessities may be turned to advantage. In architecture as a continuous thing we may find our home; in architecture as a figurative thing we may find our voice.”
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