Ignasi de Solà -Morales writes in Differences: Topographies of Contemporary Architecture :

" Architecture is not a tree but an event, resulting from the intersection of forces capable of situating an object that is partially signifying, contingent." (p.16)


"... that is to say, there is no system of objects governed by formal laws that might guarantee aesthetic efficacy. Instead, in the first instance, what exists is the subject's willingness to establish relations with a world that is to be constructed through the mediation of the body. The subject, who is a nothing, a useless passion, constructs the world by looking ahead. through openings, and through consciousness. The work of art is a gesture that emanates from the body." ( p.52)