From “Absolute Idea of Architecturally Defined Space” To “Architecture as a Living Organism"

This paper presents a new typology of architecture suggested by the title of the paper: FROM “ABSOLUTE IDEA OF ARCHITECTURALLY DEFINED SPACE” TO “ARCHITECTURE AS A LIVING ORGANISM”. The new typology is based on the author's theory of “Architecturally Defined Space (ADS)” according to which every architectural realization has four basic elements: Environment, Man, Boundaries and Perspectives. The term 'Absolute Idea' implies 'Space' in its broadest sense, as 'the potential possibility of realizing human existence'. The phrase 'Architecture as a living organism' covers every appearance of architecture, horizontally (across the planet Earth, its atmosphere, the Universe and other celestial bodies) and vertically (on the scale of human history). In this way, an extremely simplified picture of architecture is given, which, at the same time, can be broken down into a limited number of 'pictures', according to the unlimited number of occurrences of the natural and clustered environment.