Mute Form

“With the exception of monuments, architecture requires space for inhabitation. If the term monolith is taken literally to suggest material solidity, monolithic architecture would be impossible by definition. However, we understand monolithic to signify monolith-­‐like, and hence to confer a sense of solidity and homogeneity on objects that are not and could not be integrally solid and homogeneous”

Rodolfo Machado and Rudolph El-­‐Khoury, Monolithic Architecture