ABSTRACT
Today architecture is treated most often as a technical discipline dominated by the knowledge of science, seen as the ultimate criterion of truth and what is real. We are familiar with the reference to the “real” world that we hear, almost as a cliché, so often today. What is meant by real is usually the pragmatic reality of the everyday, defi ned by current politics, economics, market forces and technological developments. On a more sophisticated level, the real is defi ned by the criteria of science. It is a standard and repeated experience that, in case of doubt, we ask science to be the ultimate arbiter of truth.
