ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses what is more literally creative writing: the specifications and instructions that generate buildings and their occupation. It argues that 'word-and-sketch' buildings, far from existing only in the realm of representation, possess lives of their own, quite independently of the 'real' buildings they purport merely to describe. The chapter outlines a context for this enquiry by examining debates between word and image (notably the architectural drawing) in the construction of buildings and the occupation of the interiors they contain. It considers a short passage from the De Ceremoniis in several dimensions. The chapter examines what is being commanded or instructed within the text itself and explores the ways in which this text shares with specifications, blueprints, and scripts the burden of reproducibility. It also explores what is NOT said within the text, and notably how the sphere of interior occupation is demarcated against the sphere of architecture.
