Architectural production now is distributed along a long long chain: from a line in a BIM model, to a budget spreadsheet, to a demolition permit, to a worker on scaffolding, to a facade in a magazine. Each segment of the chain is only accountable to itself, each object contains too much professional knowledge for others to understand. Then when a building falls down, no single segment is required to answer for what the chain does as a whole. A sensitive architect finds the unknowability of this act unbearable, because of the fear that building inevitably causes harm to some.

The anxious architect builds an archive. It contains the diary of an architect troubled by moral anxiety, alongside letters written by residents, educators, and those who have left the profession. The archive is shown through the peepholes of a construction hoarding. Using fragmentary, non-systematic material against the complexity of a vast system, the project attempts to recover a sense of the real, and to understand again the many sides of architectural production.