architecture resisting change, even as it flows from it, struggling to crystallise and be eternal, even as it is broken and scattered – architecture seeking nobility of presence, yet possessed of the knowledge that only the incomplete can claim nobility in a world of the gratuitous, the packaged, the promoted and the already sold – architecture seeking nobility of persistence in a world of the eternally perishing, itself giving way to the necessity of its moment

Lebbeus Woods, 'Turbulence' in ANARCHITECTURE: Architecture is a Political Act (Academy Editions, 1992) p. 40