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I may be an accidental formalist or something equally out of style right now, something that no one is interested in. I care about how buildings look, how their shapes make me feel. It’s like how it’s very cool in yoga now, I think, to talk about “shapes” instead of “poses.” It reminds me of an architect I know who hates the word “form,” even as he makes intensely formal buildings, in that they are all about what kind of shape they seem to tell him they want to be. It’s like the first and last thing we want to do is accept that we’re actually talking about the same thing, all the time, forever. How many discourse producers does it take to say that we’re actually all talking about buildings, even when we think we’re not?
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