SPACE AS MEMBRANE

What if architecture was no longer 3D or 2D, mass or surface, object or space? And what if the architectural environment was envisio ned not as an abstract continuum, but as a material envelope that grows organically from the human body, uniting its skin with the p eriphery of a city, a region or a continent, and even the entire earthly atmosphere? Such a sprawling hypothesis informs the theoret ical premise of the 1926 essay 'Space as Membrane', written by former Bauhaus student, architect and cosmological theorist Siegfried Ebeling...[Read more]