Threads Through Sheffield

“…architects grapple with the socially constructed body more than they will care to admit. Even the “pure, plastic” icons of High and Late Modernism resonate with the overwhelming expression of the body’s denial. The problem, rather, has been in the reluctance of contemporary architectural practice to reward the body and space as interdependent constructs, inseperable from the cultural forces which have shaped them. Architecture refuses to admit that space is already constructed before it gets there-coded legally, politically, morally and socially. Space is nothing more than “contractual,” and is prescribed in advance of architecture.”

Flesh, Diller and Scofidio (Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 1994) p.39