Space Formation, the Relative Autonomy of Architecture and Architectural Designing, 2024-2026

Current research project, which investigates architectural space formation in its relationship to the relative autonomy of architecture, as well as the resulting significance of space formation for architectural designing. By doing so, the objective is to make a fundamental contribution to understanding space formation as an essential dimension of architectural design, and to make its corresponding potential comprehensible and applicable for design practice.

In the first part of the project, the relationship of space formation to relative autonomy will be analyzed by clarifying and relating design-theoretical terms in the context of specific architectural-theoretical discourses. In the second part, this architectural-theoretical analysis is linked to designing. In doing so, the design-related significance of space formation is examined on the basis of an already developed systematics of designing and through the analysis of concrete design examples. In the third part, a monograph will be written summarizing and publishing the results of the first two parts.