Even with marble or bronze letters on the frontispieces of solemn buildings, there are blatant antinomies such as Technical School of Architecture or Opera House. Strictly speaking, neither the School of Architecture should be called “technical”, nor should a building intended for operatic performances be given the mythical and glorious name of theater.

Having pointed out this not inconsiderable confusion of terms that generates conceptual and therefore architectural errors, the following are some comments on Bernard Tschumi's project for the Tokyo Opera House. For this purpose, and just for convenience, the three questions that the proto-existentialist Schopenhauer applied to the human being are applied to the project...[+]