A "pros- thesis," then, is always architectural. It is always the supplement of a structure - but one that cannot simply be removed. Grafted on to repair some kind of structural flaw, it is a foreign element that reconstructs that which cannot stand up on its own, at once propping up and extending its host. The prosthesis is always structural, establishing the place it appears to be added to.

Wigley, Mark: Prosthetic Theory: The Disciplining of Architecture (1991)

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