若询问建筑师当前学科中最棘手的问题是什么，他们很少会提及距办公室仅两条街之遥的、缺乏维护的战后住宅区。他们脑海中浮现的往往是火星上的压力差或浮动平台上的张力载荷；这是因为无人认领的土地无需协商、无需回应历史、也无需顾及记得上次翻新的租户，这使得在此类地点进行设计变得容易得多。

Ask an architect what the hardest problem in the discipline is right now. The block of unmaintained postwar housing two streets from their office rarely comes up. What comes to their mind is the pressure differentials on Mars , or the tensile loads on a floating platform; because unclaimed ground has no one to negotiate with, no history to answer to, no tenant to remember the last renovation, which makes it considerably easier to design for.