ABSTRACT
After the orthodox Modern Movement became discredited in the 1960s, it was generally agreed that positivism was a naïve and incomplete way to seek knowledge. The rejection of pure positivism created a vacuum. The alternative that emerged may have been just as naïve. The reactive rise of subjectivity as a legitimate source of truth in architecture was bolstered by architectural phenomenology and related spiritual quests that aspired to know the immeasurable and unknowable. The project was to describe a “quality without a name.” Inevitably that description robbed the quality of its un-namable quality.
