ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a series of case studies, which deal with several aspects of the new media in relation to space and architecture. Architecture, according to Aaron Betsky, is required to respond to the crossroads; the not-only-physical places and their interconnections. As he argues, 'architecture seems to matter less and less when seen from the perspective of users. More and more of us spend more and more time in a virtual place that exists independently of buildings'. The chapter examines the notion of the intangible, invisible and immaterial through the tension between the electronic, virtual, imaginative elements of space and the seams that their physical nature reveals. New media create invisible connections, boundaries, fields of particular qualities, and through these invisible, immaterial or intangible elements, the function and the meaning of a place is established.
