ABSTRACT
Douglas Darden closed his book, Condemned Building, with an excerpt from Victor Hugo’s famed chapter “This Will Kill That", placing particular importance on the written word as a portable conveyor of meaning, replacing a static architecture. The words of Hugo’s Archdeacon are critical to any discussion involving literature and architecture, seemingly so foreign to one another, for he claims that the two subjects were once the same entity. The theoretical project entitled Confabulatores Nocturni was born out of such ideas and evolved into intertwined dreams that decipher and translate elements of our own artistic conscience, with texture, surface, and shadow serving as letters of a new alphabet. In his lecture entitled “The Thousand and One Nights", Borges references men whose profession it was to tell stories during the night, the Confabulatores Nocturni. He writes, those stories must have been fables.
