what lacan said re: architecture

‘Architecture… like painting… is organised around emptiness.’

Jacques Lacan, Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 (New York, Norton, 1992) pp135-36 (condensed).                                                                                                                                                                                Lorens Holm, photograph of downtown St. Louis, 1990.

Emptiness = when the motel says ‘no vacancies’.