Proving yet again that one should never, ever write about architecture, behold this festival of tautology from the winning essay in the annual Berkeley Prize Competition for undergrad pundits:

This continual process of erasure can never reach a final outcome. For the city to continue to be a dynamic, exciting experience there must always be a trace of something no longer there and the anticipation of something that will be. There must always be the residue of something that has occurred and the expectation of something about to occur. Constant and the Situationists showed us that the process of becoming lies in the revelatory moments of urban exploration and re-examination. Matta-Clark showed us the potential of fragmentation and re-use. And finally there is the concept of the terrain vague and its continual flux of presence and absence and their mutual necessity. It is in a sense, the presence of an absence that is the absence of presence. Which brings us to the public space in question.

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