ABSTRACT
I got a taste of the confusion when some years ago, Scolari and I attended a conference in Key Biscayne, listening to an architect who presented a number of buildings looking as if wrecked by a hurricane or as if a giant had accidently sat on them. The author of the untidy assemblages being used to worldwide applause was puzzled by Scolari’s expressed hostility and explained that his recent work was totally influenced by Scolari’s early paintings, that indeed a single lecture by Scolari in Los Angeles had changed his entire approach to design. Someone then mentioned: ‘wouldn’t that be like becoming a killer because you love Hitchcock films?’
