1.
Architecture: the art of building doors
to open up—the building of openness;
building not to isolate and hem in
nor to shut up secrets, but building
every door an open door—building
houses made only of doors and roofs.
Architect: the one who opens to man
(in open houses all would be cleansed)
doors-leading-to, never doors-against;
doors to freedom: air light sure reason.
2.
Until, intimidated by so many free men,
he stopped letting them live transparently.
Where there were openings he put in
opacities; instead of glass, plaster—
resealing man in the chapel-uterus
with the old comforts, once more a fetus.
Translated by Richard Zenith