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So I Am Totally Aware That When I Defend The Autonomy Of Art I'm Going Counter To My Own Development. It's More An Instinctive Reaction, Meant To Protect The Private Aspect Of The Work, The Part I Am Most Interested In And Which Nowadays Is At Risk In Our Culture.

So We Can't Go Backwards, We Can Only Go Where The Evolutionary Trajectory Is Taking Us And Attune Our Ideas About Ourselves And Our Existence To That Course.

It's Too Simplistic To Advance The Notion Of The Autonomy Of Art As A Reason For Turning Away From The Public. You Can Have Autonomy And Simultaneously Have Connections With The Social And Political World.

So At A Time In Which The Media Give The Public Everything It Wants And Desires, Maybe Art Should Adopt A Much More Aggressive Attitude Towards The Public. I Myself Am Very Much Inclined To Take This Position.

Architecture Is Involved With The World, But At The Same Time It Has A Certain Autonomy. This Autonomy Cannot Be Explained In Terms Of Traditional Logic Because The Most Interesting Parts Of The Work Are Non-verbal. They Operate Within The Terms Of The Work, Like Any Art.