As successive forms of culture and technology have encountered the world and reconstituted and recomposed it, as language substitutes for "experience," as veneer substitutes for "solid," as continuity of any kind is broken into parts and recomposed as digitized "bits," architects have struggled with the memory of Authenticity

You will investigate the issue of authenticity at the Entrance. The portal, the transition between what is the public outdoor realm and the localized interior realm, is a point where architectural choices must be made. Is there an authentic continuity that links inside to outside, public to private? Or is the difference between inside and outside the authentic condition? Is entering more authentic than exiting? Which way does the door swing?