Los lugares de la cultura

Alison & Peter Smithson
Italian Thoughts (1993)

One´s "returns" to Bath, to Athens, to Cambridge (Mass), to Milan, to Stockholm are each, if one examines them, ritualized in this way: one seeks -like an animal to salk-lick- the flavour of
one´s earliest experiences of the territory at its most extreme. One seeks the places where the sensation is sharpest in us.