Frances to Chris with thanks... It may be that making or framing a "global" theory of architecture will not be possible. If this outcome proves to be so, then perhaps a more philosophic relativism might be in order, so that there could be several general and special and universal theories of architecture. The current polarities of architecture as art and as not art or "nonart" would seem to warrant at least a pair of theories. Another marginal problem with a theory of architecture for me is just exactly what the object of the theory might really turn out to be; that is to say, would architecture be the object of the theory, or would theory be the object of the theory.
You wrote... Would it be a discovery if Francis proved that it is not possible to frame a philosophic theory of architecture?
