Virtually Transparent Structures

By blocking the transparent ideal prescribed by the prevailing cultural regime, these buildings question the norms that force architecture to assimilate and facilitate. [...]disappearing into illegibility even as they frame the buildings around them, singular buildings test the limits of what architecture can signify within its sociocultural context. Because singular buildings both stand out and efface themselves, they slip into the singular vanishing point of the extant ideological and spatial grid, denying perspective its hegemonic power over the interpellated viewer. [...]suspending the order imposed upon the mental and geographical topography, singular structures force us to pose the difficult questions of "what if," "what now," and "what next."