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Reappear in the way a detail is different standpoint: I think that, Without a strong concept and the conceived. This cannot be particularly in an international ability to verbalise this concept, it is separated; only the degree of symposium, it is interesting to barely possible to implement the abstraction differs. On the level of see that one can feel the training building structures one has in project development and of the others in different places. mind. We need the theoretical formulation, one must work with Also the way in which people background upon which we can methods of making things visible embark on their practical work place the ideas we are focussing on.

43 Eva Grubbauer a certain kind of intensity. We Welcome, Marie Therese create this intensity, this charging Harnoncourt and Ernst Fuchs. up of a space, through the design Which project would you take as an process and we also believe that by introduction to your work, and how means of such spaces one can would you characterise your work? achieve new programmatic definitions. In the general building Marie Therese Harnoncourt debate at the moment there is We are mainly interested in useable floor space, square metres the production of spaces that have hardly any concept of space.

Instead now, the design is inherent. The use of the computer is inherent in the design and the car looks quite normal. The utopian, or shall we say science-fiction side of this, is of course the film Matrix, which is now replacing Blade Runner, as a favourite reference point for architects. In Blade Runner, the zeros and ones are shaping reality, but reality looks absolutely banal and normal. In fact, that is, what is going on. That is reality. Utopia, I would argue, utopia that is latent, would be exactly that, which makes us aware within the seemingly normal images, spaces and objects of everyday life, that they are artificial, that they are unstable, that they are fluid, that they are blobs or trans-architectures, that which would not be immediately evident, patent, but that which would be latent, which would work through irony or, even better, through something, that is so invisible, it cannot even be named, to make us aware of the disturbing uncertainty, disturbing a-human, just not to say anti-human, a-human quality of our reality and SPACE CONDITION – INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE SYMPOSIUM TOPIC AARON BETSKY / ROGER RIEWE / KARI JORMAKKA propose that we not find solutions to problems, but that we state the problem of our lack of understanding, of what it is in fact, the computers and communication-technologies can do by making us aware of the absurd artificiality of the world we inhabit every day.