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http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/the-critics/events/david-kohns-hedgehog-and-the-fox-lecture-and-exhibition-at-the-london-met/1995453.article

'Particularly in an urban context, the fox-architect indulges a species of architectural jujitsu, whereby subtle interventions activate the rich thematics and history of a site (always replete with contradictions or ‘nasty’ phenomena), whilst the hedgehog architect treats the context as a kind of bed of lettuce for the whole smoked salmon.

The fox-architect gets all the richness for free whereas the hedgehog-architect must conjure either the sophisticated illusion of richness or its opposite – the complete absence of reference, pure form. Whilst this in turn creates a second psychological reading - the fox is timid whilst the hedgehog is bold (as in Rem’s ‘fuck context’) – the main issue is that for the fox, one’s city is the topic, whereas for the hedgehog, one’s own architecture (or oneself) is the topic.'