(Metaphysical) ruins
Ruere (lat.) be ruined, destroy, fall, collapse, ruin
,,Ruins are depicted as BROKEN and DENIED of absolute AUTHORITY and thus the greatest stimulus to the imagination. The whole is a ruin even if the forms are complete. The ruin is always open to reinterpretation, it’s asking us to complete it.”
Jonathan Hill, The architecture of ruins: Designs of the past, present and future
+ The monument in short is a guide to the future> just as it confers a kind of immortality on the dead, it determines our actions in the years to come.
+ + But there has to be that interval of neglect, there has to be discontinuity,it is religiously and artistically essential. That is what I mean when I refer to the necessity for ruins> ruins provide the incentive for restoration and for return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform
J.B. Jackson, The necessity for ruins
