ABSTRACT
The art of the master-builder entails the creation of space,
not the design of façades. A spatial envelope is estab-
lished by means of walls, through which a space or a series
of spaces are manifested.
(Berlage 1908)
Today the practice of architecture seems to be increas-
ingly polarized between, on the one hand, a so-called
‘high-tech’ approach predicated exclusively on produc-
tion and, on the other, the provision of a ‘compensatory
façade’ to cover up the harsh realities of this universal
system.