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"EGGS FOR HAITI" 02/10A cluster of egg shaped semi-permanent buildings containing enough generic space and resources serve as host to the reformation of Haitian institutions. Each building is sponsored and occupied by a foreign nation or group of foreign nations. Each egg exterior is wrapped in a flag graphic corresponding to its foreign sponsor(s). In context these unusually new, clean and colorful forms - lofty and detached - loom as symbols of a new internationalized condition in Haiti. If the common goal is truly the enabling of Haitians, it is important that the role of foreign agents in Haiti be in no way convert . In this case, architecture may be used to identify what is "for Haiti" apart from that which is "of Haiti"."BLADE RUNNER MONKEY FIGHT" 01/10In this particular future, a creative global renaissance has inspired the mass rejection of social hierarchy and cultural authority. Everyone is an artist. More cultural content is being produced than can be absorbed by the collective memory of mankind. As this future world approaches extreme saturation, content is being purged indiscriminately. "Official" histories, unofficial histories, revised histories, solipsistic manifestos, retroactive manifestos, historic futures and projected futures all fall away. This jettisoning is an act of liberation. Now only fragments remain. Utopian dreams and dystopian nightmares were replaced with the anticlimactic present moment. Historians and critics were replaced with observers and aggregators long ago and now they too will be replaced with rememberers. Symbolic hierarchies still survive as nostalgic references in competing narratives and absurd ideological battles. Misunderstood phantom desires for authority and control manifest themselves in the escapist theaters where monkey fights take place daily.