Page 11 - Between light and shade
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Introduction
on the subject of painting and which can be
applied directly to construction: “its endless
questioning, which is repeated with every work,
will not result in a solution and, yet, provides
an understanding, with the unique property of
only obtaining this understanding, of the visible,
by means of an act that makes it come alive on
a canvas. 11” This is the paradox of architecture,
which is both an intractable question and answer.
11 Ibid., p. VII.
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