Holten tries to transcribe the subtle languages in the swirl of marble, the patterns of grooves in sandstone curbs, the hieroglyphics we never notice in the limestone at Grand Central Station. What can the lines in the landscape tell us? Where are we going? What will we leave behind? Rocks bear witness. All the lines, cracks, holes, marks, dots, wrinkles, and fossil traces that appear in stones over and over again, and on different scales, must be trying to tell us something about the life of the city, of the Earth; about the metabolism of the buildings, of the planet. Messages percolate from
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