"Italian may be "such children" but their tar-babies are not physical pain or coldness; they want an absence of history, they want to start fresh. When they designed those big palaces in Rome they must have known all along about hope and death, but they were so graceful they made it look easy."—Babitz, Eve. Slow Days, Fast Company. Rain. 1977.

The course aims at studying the correlation between board games (limited to a fixed geometric area but unlimited in their permutations) and the architectural grid (this 'architecture without a substance' yet more durable than any built work).