ABSTRACT
Architectural interfaces enable a special kind of interaction, one that problematizes its own presence. A window in a building’s wall is an apparently trivial example of an architectural interface. Representational artifacts such as architectural drawings, installations, and models are also capable of functioning as architectural interfaces. As a characteristic of architectural interface, thickness may result from the specifics of an architectural design. A set of elevation-oblique drawings sets forth a possible conceptual assembly of the design of the architectural interface at the Monument to the Resistance. The built environment operates like an architectural interface: entities like buildings, and parts of buildings, and cities, and parts of cities, make it possible to assess and identify differences in architecturally significant ways. The constraints on perception as experienced within a built interface are due to a building’s geometrical form and in part due to tacit or overtly enforced cultural expectations.
