The architectural office is doubtless apt to suggest such virtualities. The model-concept occupies their brains. All the rest is just accessory. In this sense, Botta's 'declarations' can be taken as a declaration of defeat. Postmodern 'occupation' of our historical cities is stopped.
Theories produce nonsense, if man and culture are kept out.
Suddenly the global perspective is there, any smallest action has its global implications. Little Ticino-treasureboxes become absurd, even in the case of Godfather Botta. Paradoxically this strategy always loses the war, when it finally managed to occupy any territory. With a certain density of territorial occupation, the human deficit of the forms arouses the inhabitants. Now again, with Botta's new global 'Pruitt-Igoe'.