The conservative cry within the architectural discipline to "remember" and repeat past formal, typological, and institutional models with the claim that these models will shore us up, will make us safe and heimlich, is thus only the most vocal, only the most apparent, indication of this widespread compulsion to repeat. This isolating of certain memories literally in architecture an isolating of elements, institutional forms, "typologies", and styles from the past - seeks to bring back the past, to repeat what is "remembered" as pleasurable, as heimlich. (But) Conventions, as representations of that which "has long not been altered," are blocks both to awareness and to potential change.
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