operas, all scenes mixed up in an order different from the 
     one he wrote. It was like seeing a building from a fast 
     elevator that showed you the roof before the basement, 
     and made quick stops at some floors but not others.

     Since that phase, Girard has worked out new techniques 
of control for painting with light in association with CBS and 
NBC technicians. The relevance of his work for housing is that it 
enables us to conceive of totally new possibilities for 
architectural and artistic modulation of space. Painting with 
light is a kind of housing-without-walls. The same electric 
technology, extended to the job of providing global 
thermostatic controls, points to the obsolescence of housing 
as an extension of the heat-control mechanisms of the body. It 
is equally conceivable that the electric extension of the process 
of collective consciousness, in making consciousness-without-