ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book deals with the notion of the invisible, intangible, elusive elements of space; elements that co-create the qualities of a place, but which cannot be easily identified, controlled, or represented, due to their particular nature. It presents the reverse link through the Brian Massumi's account on virtuality. The book looks into the debates that challenge the purely visual, activating, hence, the discourse about the sensuous, the atmospheric, the ambiguous, the non-graspable and non-visually-representable. The visual has generally been prioritized within western cultures and has thus defined the originary modes of representation and the fundamental values of architecture. The book examines the notion of the performative; into what the building does. The discussions concerned the building as performative as opposed to the perception of the building as a static object.
