ABSTRACT
If the subject is split, it should be possible to see architecture as deeply fractured. Architecture projects the image of wholeness, unity and coherence to its subject, and it should be possible to dog-ear or scratch its surface, so that people can glimpse beneath it a fractured other. The apparent unity of architecture is also a question of architecture’s correspondence to its own image, and it should be possible for the image to slip out of register. If perspective is one spatial experience among others, and not the general form of spatial experience, then architecture is a species of representation. What it represents is a form of space. Perspective is just the form of spatial experience represented to people by a certain kind of architecture like Brunelleschi’s nave, which has been designed to represent space in accordance with that spatial epiphany, the one-point perspective drawing.
