The empty blue chairs at the back of the room sit there, kind of like giant amplifiers, amplifiers that make everything else go away and exaggerate their own weirdness.

These places have at least three characteristics in common. They want to be - people want them to be - places of identity, of relations and of history. The layout of the house, the rules of residence, the zoning of the village, placement of altars, configuration of public open spaces, land distribution, correspond for every individual to a system of possibilities and prescriptions whose content is both spatial and social.