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the user active or passive? But the crux of the matter remains, what is the status of the work? There are architects who write about pleasure and desire – I am thinking for example of Bernard Tschumi. In his essay, “The Pleasure of Architecture,” he writes at length about seduction and pleasure. It is a really wonderful series of thoughts. In this work, for Tschumi, pleasure becomes a powerful way to attack a sort of orthodox modernism. It attacks an instrumental reading of space and architecture. Thus pleasure, desire, even leisure to some extent, become really powerful ways to challenge the orthodoxy of Modernism in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Although at some point, you have to say, when do we stop challenging the orthodoxy? BP: Oh yes. I am. Thank you so much. BP: I would love to continue the conversation about women and architecture, as a future thing. BP: Oh, no, it was my pleasure and the lunch is my treat.
Waitress: Are you finished? AG: I’m sorry! We didn’t let you eat!
AG: That would be very nice. SH, YY, AG: Thank you so much! SH, YY, AG: Thank you so much! YY: It was so nice to meet with you.
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