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Contemporary philosophy and new art sensibility begin to influence the architecture of an academic Tschumi and schoolmates used “as ‘live’ insert(s)” to challenge the programming of space. Text used to outwardly respond to the architecture became a structure with which to challenge the visual realm and to realize space. To what extent does the story parallel space? Is it through the nature of event or the sequencing of spaces for programmatic surrealism that we challenge architecture to activate? Once active, what does this exploration in reciprocal information exchange (between event and space with words) offer? Is a diversity of events and the variety of how to represent that shift simply the how-to guide for realizing architecture?

“There is no space without events, no architecture without program.”

(Ten years later) inside the space, the event as body, through movement, violates architecture as space. Here we're confronted with an uncomfortable if not masochistically painful relationship, our relationship to architecture as intensity. Must all constructed space be psychologically traumatic?