the space of architecture by Alberto Pérez-Gómez

"If architecture can be said to have a poetic meaning we must recognize that what it says is not independent of what it is. Architecture is not an experience that words translate later. Like the poem itself, it is its figure as presence, which constitutes the means and ends of the experience.
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In an attempt to clarify the ultimate status and specificity of architecture as a Fine Art it was declared, indeed for the first time (1898), that architecture was the art of space, its intentional raison d’être, according to Schmarzow, was the artistic manipulation of space.
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Fully to address the dangers of aestheticism, reductive functionalism and either conventional or experimental formalism, architecture must consider seriously the potential of narrative as the structure of human life, a poetic vision realized in space-time. The architect, in a sense, now must also write the “script” for his dramas, regardless of whether this becomes an explicit or implicit transformation of the “official” program. This is, indeed, a crucial part of his design activity, and also the vehicle for an ethical intention to inform the work.”

In “Questions of Perception: Phenomenology of Architecture”
by Steven Holl, Juhani Pallasmaa and Alberto Pérez-Gómes