Junkspace“The built… …product of modernization is not modern architecture but Junkspace. Junkspace is what remains after modernization has run its course or, more precisely, what coagulates while modernization is in progress, its fallout.” - Rem Koolhaas, Junkspace 2003
is the vocabulary. Ideas come from junk around in as much as from nothing, they are built through serendipity, plagiarism and rigid method.Hinting to the dialectics of Hegel. They are given a form. Oddly, forms last longer than the ideas sustaining them. Olgiati works without references. False. Everything is referential. LLMs use vector embeddings,Embeddings are a method of gathering data by which words are assigned numerical value, and are then placed in a vector space in relation to one another. Thats how LLMs assemble sentences, through potentiality of relation and the following emerging meaning. Statistic based prediction. where every word is a number in relation to one another, infinitely mathematically referential. Images noised and then de-noised and assembled from nothing to be disassembled again. What is reference if not an image, a definition, a postulation of individuation of an affect; a representation of a feeling if you will. Feelings and no images? Feelings are constructed predispositions, (Bourdieu?),“… people are more likely to encounter situations and interpret them according to their pre-existing dispositions rather than to modify their feelings” so is taste“Taste is not a particular set of values, but the ability to to discriminate between things in order to enhance enjoyment of them. Thus, taste depends on knowledge and the exercise of it…” - Stephen Bailey and lack of it. Even shoe size defines in as much as how firmly one holds ones body on land as it corresponds to their attitudes, character and firmness of decision making, even when it comes to designing a building… or if they sit crosslegged, stutter or never laugh. Attitude as a reference? Godard wore sunglasses. I really have this idea that people have always been the same, wanted same things and felt same things and never evolved it is just tools with which they could articulate their wants and woes always changed. Nationstate is irrelevant, secular liberalism needs no narrative, so it’s just the volume and the void, that’s all that Olgiati has got and really needs. Lyricism?

Burger King in Tirana, Albania, building by Olgiati, winter of 2025