ABSTRACT

I have called these settings … discrete, but are they really

single or separate? Doesn’t the drift or merge of one into

another turn them into something other than an ensemble

of rooms or settings, into some version of field or land-

scape? How is one to perceive, to understand, ‘rooms

within rooms’; does not the annexation of border ter-

ritories confuse identities by disturbing the integrity or

self-sameness of the building’s plan, precisely because

it integrates it into the surround what one would have

thought was properly and pragmatically excluded from it?