Architecture and Space
What distinguishes Architecture from all other forms of art is its working with a three-dimensional vocabulary. Architecture is like a great hollowed-out sculpture which humans enter and apprehend by moving about within it.
In designing a building, the architect submits plans, elevations, and cross-sections; in other words, he represents the architectural volume by breaking it down into the vertical and horizontal planes which enclose and divide it. This has reality only on paper and is justified only by the necessity of measuring the distances between the various elements of the construction for the practical execution of the work. It’s tempting to focus on what you build (walls, floors, windows, doors) but what really drives the experience of architecture… is space.
Spatial experience is dynamic, and relies not on what’s constructed (bricks and mortar) but on what is not constructed. Space Flows, and is primarily experienced “in time”, and this sequencing of connections and boundaries can be described in terms of poetry of movement, rhythm, contraction & expansion, light, scale, material and color.
