This chapter focuses upon a Spanish tradition, referenced by the song in the epilogue, in which children who refuse to go to sleep are warned that they will be visited by the Coco, an indeterminate monster. In the sphere of architecture, representation and its actualization seem to play with the invisible. Design does not predict the future, but rather it makes the invisible appear. In his 'Translations from Drawing to Building', Robin Evans argues that a large part of architectural invention takes place in the open space between representation and production. The problem of transfer between professional and academic practice is complex. In many cases involving architects who are both teachers and practitioners, the relationship moves in only one direction. Some take approaches, methodologies, themes, skills, tics, and sensitivities they have developed in their professional practices and replicate them in the academic world.

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