On Projection in Architecture

Here is a great (but dense) excerpt I found in a book called Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge:

“Projective drawing need not be a reductive device, a tool of prosaic substitution.  Projection evokes temporality and boundaries.  Defining the space between light and darkness, between the Beginning and the Beyond, it illuminates the space of culture, of our individual and collective existence.  Closer to the origins of our philosophical history, projection was identified with the space of representation, the site of ontological continuity between universal ideas and specific things.  The labyrinth , that primordial image of architectural endeavor, is a projection linking time and place.  Representing architectural space as the time of an event, the disclosure of order between birth and death, in the unpredictable temporality of human life itself, projecting is literally the hyphen between idea and experience that is the place of culture, the Platonic chora.  Like music, realized in time from a more or less ‘open’ notation and inscribed as an act of divination for a potential order,  architecture is itself a projection of architectural ideas, horizontal footprints and vertical effigies, disclosing a symbolic order in time, through rituals and programs.  The architect’s task, beyond the transformation of the world into a comfortable or pragmatic shelter, is the making of a physical, formal order that reflects the depth of our human condition, analogous in vision to the interiority communicated by speech and poetry and to the immeasureable harmony conveyed by music.”

Alberto Perez-Gomez and Louise Pelletier; Architectural Representation and the Perpective Hinge; 6-7

I think this is a great summary of why projection is important in architecture, and why it is a fascinating subject for our thesis.  It might take multiple read-throughs to grasp its significance--I've already gone through it 3 times myself--but I think it's a great addition to our current conceptual foundation.