“Sympathy (or empathy) is the base of intellectuality, and its driving force. It is in the home that the connections between sympathy and intellect can most clearly be seen and are most clearly sought after. A home that is perceived as “sterile”, without sympathy, seems to us not a home at all. A home is a welcoming shelter, isn’t it? If it is hermetically sealed against the world it is more stupid prison than shelter. Despite superficial cultural or architectural differences, from one end of the world to another, home is profoundly the same. I will therefore use my own home as a model for this project.”
JIMMIE DURHAM