reading:architectural_reflections [re.search.notes]

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Architecture is the organization of such experiences
into spatial 'figures' which match the operational and
ritual patterns of a building, so that we may say that the
architectural order of a building will lie in the vital
proportioning and sequential relationship of such
figures.
The 'figures' can be understood in terms of degrees
of enclosure from agoraphobia to claustrophobia and I
present a number of instances from my own work as
illustration. There is the totally enclosed room; the
room without a ceiling or
with a glazed ceiling, the room
with a wall or walls removed, (the portico or loggia) and the threshold, a place of pause
looking two ways between outer and inner.

<wrap hi>Form harmonizes the contradiction</wrap>: it is the setting for the evocative ambiguities, for the associative collusion, of imagery.

(after Stokes 'The Image in Form')