Charles Gwathmey: It depends on your definition of
architecture and whether you believe that architecture is
merely the assemblage of information that is literally
translated as “functional and technological facts.” If you
pull Rowe’s question apart, he is saying that there is no
interpretation, no value judgment, no context, and no
intention except to evaluate this on an accommodative,
factual basis. I think he answered the question too. Indeed,
can it ever be this? If you don’t have interpretation and
intention and you don’t think architecture transcends or transforms, then it is a
possibility