ABSTRACT
The concept of a Field of Architecture (FoA) allows us to assume a tension between man and nature; not tension in the sense of an antagonism or a contradiction, tension in the sense of a difference that becomes information by making a difference. FoA is an immaterial concept. It exists by its causes and its effects, by what it does – in time. Object of Architecture (ObA) is physical and spatial, but it has no extension in time. A topology of architectonic knowledge can be understood as the form, or regularity, according to which architecture unfolds; from conception to design, to construction and use: FoA1 – ObA – FoA2. ObA forms the 'butterfly-point', which is the turning point, the point of symmetry between mind and world where the semiotic and the ontological phase-spaces meet, the point that contains all FoA's properties and the material centre of gravity in the space-time entity which is actualized by the work of the architect.
