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The glass is held in the thinnest of metal frames, the lightness and insubstantiality of these vitrines contrasting with the mass of the original structure and the blind, blank walls of the new insertions. is reduced to an imago of the self that memorializes its own insubstantiality in a monument no one will ever see" (260). The merits of insubstantiality are highly visible in the work of Fumihiko Maki, whose constructions are routinely sheathed in floating membranes of aluminum screen, perforated panels and light reflecting surfaces. |
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