When it is in a purer state. You’ve written that “a building is the result of an ideal making a compromise with reality.”

Yes.

I’m interested that the captions in the new book don’t give the reader a lot of information about the buildings.

Just a name.

The name of the building, but not who designed it, when or where.

So it’s for the most professional people.

Well, not everybody knows everything. I know quite a few of them, but had to Google others. The Italian buildings from the ’30s I didn’t know.

I see. Just the name of the building. No location.

That says something about how you want them perceived. We’re supposed to experience the image on its own.

Right.

This looking at so much architecture seems to have led you to ask yourself, “What would I do if I were an architect?”