For that is after all the most quintessentially human thing in man, that he both is and is not his own body - that his body despite everything is a piece of external reality like any other, which can be identified by him with the help of his sense organs from outside himself. The body itself is a prosthesis of consciousness.

If violence is the key metaphor for the intensity of a relationship, then the very physicality of architecture transcends the metaphor. There is a deep sensuality, an unremittent eroticism in architecture. Its underlying violence varies according to the forces that are put into play—rational forces, irrational forces.

The entire city of VISSEUM gravitates towards itself. Fascinated by the spectacle that is born in the central violence, you slowly get pulled closer and closer to it, accelerating and amplifying your identity.

As the physical form of the city is violently colliding into itself, it builds an increasingly erratic environment. All of the city’s amplified identities and accelerated emotions use this environment as a stage, becoming part of the spectacle.

Event and space do not merge, but affect one another. […] For a while the transgression would be real and all-powerful. Yet the transgression of cultural expectations soon becomes accepted.