8. Verlust der Mitte (15) im Reich der Mitte
"The idea of the encounter between East and West is still based on
difference. What they don't realize is that there is no difference.
They consider themselves an advanced trading post. This was
incomprehensible to me when I first came, that West Berlin was sort
of a satellite in the middle of East Germany, and that condition of
being in the middle of another condition is something that they still
do not completely assume." (16) (Rem Koolhaas im Gespraech mit Hans
Ulrich Obrist, Juni 1998, Bordeaux)