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My purpose with this text is to recuperate the theme of the spatial condition to the field of architectural theory. The spatial condition has been in general a secondary protagonist in the theory of architecture where, traditionally, the aesthetic and technological appreciation of buildings has by far dominated over their appreciation as spatial structures endowed with symbolic and use values that come from the way space is experienced. This spatial dimension of architecture is acknowledged, and has its performance scrutinized, in the work of different authors, from the end of the nineteenth century on. The work presented in what follows aims at circumscribing what is specific in this architectural knowledge and, moreover, to show that the theories given by these authors present a conceptual convergence, and often coincidence, so configuring today a clearly identifiable line of research. Yet this review has not the ambition of exhausting the variety of literature that has dealt with this subject. In fact, more important than these authors is the way the concepts they have presented, during this last century, have become articulated in the formulation of a theory of space. Moreover the ambition here is to raise in the reader -architect, researcher or student -the curiosity for the knowledge about the way spatiality works in architecture.
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