Part aphorism and part manifesto, this book by Canadian architect Reza Aliabadi (RZLBD) references his ideas and thoughts about space.
Now, it is necessary or rather urgent to pause, take a moment, go inward, search for the essentials, and hope to rediscover a principle which is at once basic and timeless..
It has become all about a form-making exercise and dressing it up with a fashionable skin.
Accordingly it has given up its capacity to offer contributions and has been reduced to being a service.
Today architecture has fallen short as a discipline and has instead converted into an industry, part of commercial establishment.
What he calls an "anti-architecture" of invisible voids.
Reza revisits architecture - not as the walls that enclose the space - rather the space in-between the walls.
He suggests \'the Empty room\' as the very essence of architecture, and \'the spatial experience\' as its highest mandate.
Part aphorism and part manifesto, this book by Canadian architect Reza Aliabadi (RZLBD) references his ideas and thoughts about space
