“Buildings have both an interior and an exterior.
“In Western architecture there has been the humanistic assumption that it is desirable to establish a moral relationship between the two, whereby the exterior makes certain revelations about the interior that the interior corroborates. The ‘honest’ facade speaks about the activities it conceals…
“In the deliberate discrepancy between the container and the contained New York’s makers discover an area of unprecedented freedom. They exploit and formalize it in the architectural equivalent of a lobotomy- the surgical severance of the connection between the frontal lobes and the rest of the brain to relieve some mental disorders by disconnecting thought processes from emotions.”
– Rem Koolhaas, “Lobotomy”, Delirious New York