Architecture is not about the conditions of design, but about the design of conditions. Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge. Architecture is the discourse of events as much as the discourse of spaces. Architecture is not only what it looks like, but also what it does. Vectors activate; envelopes define. Architecture is the materialization of concepts. Concept, not form, is what distinguishes architecture from mere building. Architects don’t choose contexts; they choose concepts.
Bernard Tschumi, Architecture: concept & notation











