called ‘paper architects'，since their ideas have been expressed solely through the medium of drawings and sensitively crafted paper models. Their mode of presentation does not, of course， derive from affinity with such materials-but merely from the fact that paper has been till now the most available and ‘familiar' medium of expression. Archetypically, Brodsky's spaces manifest in the hairlines of his etchings contains the real depth proper to layers of ink on paper; his work stands as an imaginative challenge best described as opaque symbolism，or a shadow of transparency.
With reference to the universe produced by Boullee and Ledoux in their latter years and consisting of imaginary edifices-that has so often been said，since their rediscovery，to prefigure the Revolution-we may pause to query exactly in what direction these Russian post-Revolutionary imagists are tending after the great turn in events they have witnessed.
(Translated by David B. Stewart and Yoko Hayami)
With reference to the universe produced by Boullee and Ledoux in their latter years and consisting of imaginary edifices-that has so often been said，since their rediscovery，to prefigure the Revolution-we may pause to query exactly in what direction these Russian post-Revolutionary imagists are tending after the great turn in events they have witnessed.
(Translated by David B. Stewart and Yoko Hayami)
