The Tokyo-Amsterdam project is a further detailing of the principles laid down in this essay. Nothing looks any more like it was. What has remained are fragments, scratches, traces. Tokens able to keep memories alive. The city is its own book, in which words and phrases are erased continually, pages, even whole chapters are torn out.
New editions appear one after the other, with new chapters, annexes, supplements.
Things from nature were put up just as they were found. First letters of an alphabet in the making. Stone upon stone, wood on wood, clay on clay. Stacked, nailed, brushed into words and sentences. Reading was walking.