Architecture and the city. In its most deconstructed form the city can be seen as an inter-rational model of voids, spaces and places. These points of social, political and economic matter co-operate and become key orientation points for urban dwellers. These so-called constructed frameworks can be translated back to a more visual or tangible urban phenomena that require one another to exist and form successful urban cohesion. In its most pure form: Voids are spaces of orientation within a city, spaces are the paths that link these voids with one another and places are the spaces that are inhabited by users to enforce a level of locality and authenticity within the city.

The architectural void is based on matter and matter is the development of mass and occupied space. Mass and occupied space is the architectural threshold to critical place and critical place is the bodily state of being through the physical manifestations of visual, haptic and auditory dwelling. Thus architecture is the transformation of void to place through space based on critical matter.