ABSTRACT
Architecture was arguably invented and has developed as a way of managing the enlargement and expansion of the world. Architecture was born to manage the expansion of the world, and buildings grew taller and taller as vision dictated. Similarly, Keynesian economics emerged in order to manage an economy made unstable by expansion, and in politics democracy emerged as the most egalitarian and rational policy to deal with the largeness of the world. A soft architecture that is neither centralized nor structural and has ambiguous boundaries that do not generate enclosures may be possible. The specificity of matter has that power. That is precisely why the architectural system was so influential in the past. Architectural systems are excessively dependent on visual perception and matter, and as a result are centralized, structural and hierarchical. Having a clear boundary between inside and outside, they are closed systems cut off from the outside world.
