Space, Time, Space-Time And Architecture

Space plays a very peculiar role in architectural history.The term has attained different roles and meanings, from a secondary concept to the part of protagonist.The expansion of the discourse in the 20 th century provided a fruitful milieu for space to be elaborated within many fields.However, this also led to multiple discourses on space only partly overlapping in their explanations of the concept.The foremost reason for that is the invention of space-time as a scientific datum.Within the contemporary discourse on space, achieving a notion of the concept that can reflect all aspects of disciplines like geography, political and cultural sciences, or physics is a complex and maybe even unnecessary task.On the other hand, architecture tends to overuse the term recklessly, referencing different notions of it in an interchangeable manner.This paper will elaborate on architectural and non-architectural spaces to present the irreducibility and irrelevancy of the term space in architectural theory.The scientific invention of space and time as communicating categories has been elaborated in architectural theory.Scholars such as Sigfried Gideon, Bruno Zevi, and Christian Norberg-Schulz have widely discussed under different lenses the temporal dimensions of spaces.However, these discussions do not reach the complexity of nonarchitectural definitions of space discussed in other disciplines under the term spatiality.On the contrary, those efforts only deepened the artificial distinction between theory and practice of architecture without providing a theory of space-time.This in the end, creates a rift between production and reception as the "protagonist of architecture" cannot answer the questions posed by emerging, social, environmental and urban challenges.The reason for us to choose the words production and reception is to escape object-subject duality and to examine encounters that signify anything "architectural".Production and reception center architecture and directly refer to its potential to affect and be affected within the broadest perspective possible.What I suggest is to replace the understanding of space that is prioritizing the construction of volume with the construction