Harvard University felt the need for a visual arts department that would serve its aesthetic and intellectual ideals. Le Corbusier was commissioned. The long negotiation with the administration around the creative process gave birth to a book by Eduard Sekler. In 2004, Pierre Huyghe was invited to do a work in relation to the building, and the architect’s turbulent misadventures resonated with his own difficulty meeting their expectations. Sekler’s book then contributed to the writing of a puppet musical, placing the two situations in parallel. An autonomous structure covered by vegetation was built in collaboration with the architect Michael Meredith to house the show. This tumour is an architectural protuberance of this modernist dream, a monstrous vision of the spontaneous vegetal growth. «This is not a time for dreaming» is an extension of the building’s function, a course presented as a show, whose prologue was written by Liam Gillick. When you are invited to make something in a given context, the question is not so much to achieve the stated desires of those involved in that invitation...