Editor’s introduction

Abstract

It is rare to encounter basic research in the field of architecture, but this publication gives us a chance to do so. By its nature, basic research opens up new and unfamiliar domains that address the founda tions of our knowledge. Architects, absorbed as they are in contemporary problems of design, devote little time to questioning the assumptions underlying their work. What is space? How do we know it? What constitutes its reality, its physical fabric?What material forces lying beyond the realm of the visual shape the physicality of space and human comprehension of it?