EDITORIAL

摘要

Since the evaporation of the Modernist project, space has been losing ground in architecture. Whereas 'space' as a term in the second half of the 20th century was constantly on the lips of every architect, echoing Le Corbusier, by the late 1990s and early 2000s it had receded. The onset of computer-aided generative design had led to new preoccupations with surface and parametricism. Space, though, did not wholly wane in the practice of architecture. It remained locked into the working methods and drafted plans of experienced architects, like Herman Hertzberger (pp 106-13), who projected spatial configurations that intuitively responded to users' needs. This issue not only effectively reasserts the position of 'space' in architecture in a highly current computational context, but reframes its significance in the realisation of work that is 'human-centric', or 'empathic'.