Clapping with Stones, one of Lida Abdul's videos presented in the 51st Venice Biennale, reflects on the destruction of Buddha statues in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. In this essay Abdul's performance-based videos, which concentrate on place, environment and subsequently architecture, are examined in relation to a number of theorists and authors including Michel Foucault, Gianni Vittamo and Georges Bataille. The monumental, destroyed and the degraded architectural models are taken into consideration in respect to Abdul's works: Clapping with Stones, Landscape I and White House.