The Foundations of Interrogative Architecture (IA)

This manuscript introduces Interrogative Architecture (IA), a structural framework that approaches physics through the same principle that guided the earliest philosophical inquiry: begin with the question that reorganizes all others. IA does not start with separate theories for quantum mechanics and gravity. It begins with a single relational generator and asks what structures must appear when the universe is examined through different interrogative modes.From this starting point, the field takes shape. Quantum behavior and gravitational curvature emerge as complementary answers to distinct interrogative reductions of the same underlying action. The manuscript develops the system‑space, derives the invariant structure, and shows how algebraic and geometric regimes arise as natural consequences of asking different HOW questions of the same WHAT.In doing so, the work establishes the foundation of Interrogative Architecture as a scientific discipline. It replaces the earlier transitional framework and refines its central insight into a coherent interrogative structure that now anchors the field. The resulting architecture provides a unified structural lens that applies across physical, cosmological, engineered, and multi‑gradient systems wherever coherent dynamics arise from invariant relational structure.