Interest this year lied in the impact architecture has on assisting or bringing about isolation and the mechanisms that can be employed to dissolve alienation between a subject and its wider context.
Have you ever seen a box woman?
'Certainly a Box woman is hardly conspicuous, she is like a piece of Rubbish shoved between a guardrail and a public toilet. But thats different from being inconspicuous or invisible. Since she is not especially uncommon, there is every opportunity of seeing one, surely even you have, or at least once. But I also realise full well, that you don't want to admit it. You're not the only one, Even with no ulterior motive, apparently one instinctively averts ones eyes.'
Kobo Abe
