ponder this....

Our Cartesian intellectual inheritance imposes an ultimately paradoxical demission between mind and body, observer, and observed, sign and referent. This puts architecture at a distinct disadvantage. Its practical objects will forever remain alien to our theoretical process of dichotomous division, to provide commentary and captions. Under such conditions architecture as inquiry is impossible.

taken from:
"Architecture as Site Reception, Part I cuisine, fromtality, and infra-thin"
written by Donald Kunze