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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

‘Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural, but not something made up’ (Louis Kahn). Opposed to the products of nature, architecture is an artifact in literal sense, something artfully made, with a certain intention, from beautiful buildings to concentration camps.

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

‘...not all positive change feels positive in the beginning’ (S. C. Lourie). City planning uses grids for urban development. As long as you stay in the system of the grid, you can’t change anything. In addition, as long as nobody talks to the people, there is no inclusion for positive change.

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

‘Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal’ (Albert Camus). In our so-called great society of today, there is a great need for people needing validation and acceptance while avoiding the everyday meaning of what life and society should be.

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

‘An idea is salvation by imagination ‘ (Frank Lloyd Wright). This credo is the opposite to nihilism. It is about ideas that are imagining a better future. To imagine a space where we want to live, and to go forward to realize that space - instead of resignation and nihilism.

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

‘Architecture is the art of how to waste space’ (Philip Johnson). With the city in decline, one must question if the architecture of the last half century is art, or the art of wasting space. Challenge the architect of today to attempt to create a functional living space for the population.

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

‘Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization’ (Louis Kahn). Is an oblivion upon us, having a look at the bulk of today’s architecture having no soul? Is the architecture of today an expression of who we are today…a signature of our society?

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

‘We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future’ (Franklin D. Roosevelt). It seems we have built a future for our youth filled with frustration, isolation, and the loss of self-esteem. The question to all of us is, where have we all gone wrong?

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

‘The way of bringing forth a city is the identification of the citizens with their community’ (Hans Kollhoff). How is this possible today, in an era of fragmented societies, maximization of individual interests, and the predominance of social media which replaced the old public place?

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Housing. Villa Badoer,Italy.Photo U.Gehmann

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

‘Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart’ (Matthew Desmond). Housing encompasses more than just a roof over one’s head. It is a psychological need. A society that cannot supply proper housing for its population, is a society lost.

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

‘We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims’ (R. Buckminster Fuller). Architecture, over time, has been the basis of the identity of societies and cultures. The collective consciousness that drove in the past the concepts of what architecture would be has been lost.

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

How such a new architecture, and a mindset related to it, can emerge in today’s fragmented societies? Time and timelessness. Duomo di Modena/Italy. Photo U. Gehmann

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

‘Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness’ (Frank Gehry). What does this mean today, in times of accelerating change and architectures built just for the moment, as a mere expression of that moment?

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Culture as unity of style. Darmstadt/Germany. Photo U. Gehmann

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Culture is unity of style in all expressions of life in a society, Friedrich Nietzsche said. What does this mean for today’s architecture? In the fragmented societies of the West, is there one predominant style at all? Or have we lost a consistent style, just as we have lost a cohesive society?

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Ruin power. Colosseum, Rome. Phot U. Gehmann

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

‘I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing’ (Tadao Ando). Ruins can reveal the very essence of a building, its nature, and its intentions. What kind of world was it that architecture stands for?

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

‘Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task, therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise’ (Adolf Loos). Architecture is both visual and mental. Architecture itself is defining how it affects the individual. We first shape the buildings, and then the buildings shape us.

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Successes and Failures. Athens. Photo U. Gehmann

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Successes and Failures. Athens. Photo U. Gehmann

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

‘The task of architecture is the creation of the human living space’ (Friedrich von Borries). Faced with urban agglomerations, slums, congestion, and decay, architecture has had its successes and failures that have had a direct effect on the living quality of society and community.

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Towards a New Architecture. Arcosanti, Arizona/USA. Photo U. Gehmann

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

‘Architecture is about trying to make the world a little bit more like our dreams’ (Bjarke Ingels). What does this mean today, in times of cheap, functional architecture designed for profit or mass housing? What about giving the world we live in a new, more human, and more beautiful appearance?

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Art & community in the making. Ideal settlement of Borca di Cadore/Italy. Photo U. Gehmann

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

‘Art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it’ (Ernst Fischer). ‘By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities’ (Socrates).

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Shadow of the urban. Delhi/India. Photo U. Gehmann

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

‘Where wealth accumulates, men decay’ (Oliver Goldsmith). There has been a massive accumulation of wealth by the few, but most of the population cannot afford the housing it needs to live in. What had once been a dream of the ideal space to live in, has become a nightmare of survival.

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Formatted housing. Torino/Italy. Photo U. Gehmann

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

‘A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible’ (William Baldwin). This is the reality of what exists in today’s communities.

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Desolate landscape. Los Angeles. Photo U. Gehmann

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

‘Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it falls apart’ (Matthew Desmond). In today’s world, there exists a massive housing problem. Without ample housing, there is a possibility that communities and societies will crumble.

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Visuality. Torino/Italy. Photo U. Gehmann

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

‘Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves’ (Julia Morgan). This does apply for every kind of architecture, beautiful and human as well as awful and inhuman. Moreover, every architecture is indicative for the society and culture that created it.

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Le Corbusier, La Tourette/France. Photo U. Gehmann

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

‘Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light’ (Le Corbusier). Based on architecture as an intelligent construction, it is a learned game as one has to play with shapes and sizes and ultimate structures that are not a product of the everyday.

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Architecture as art in space. Ballhaus, Vienna. Photo U.Gehmann

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

‘Without an architecture our own, we have no soul of our own civilization’ (Frank Lloyd Wright). Architecture as an art is essential to the identity of a culture. Culture needs to have a soul, and architecture is one of the driving forces in society that drives the soul of a culture.

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Architecture as space. Vienna, Museum of Arts. Photo U.Gehmann

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

‘Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space’ (Mies van der Rohe). We see an entire artificial space made in a specific style, opening up in front of our eyes - it could be part of a whole world constructed in the same style. Culture is unity of style, Nietzsche said.

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Modern rationalism. Berlin main station. Photo U. Gehmann

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

‘Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche’ (David Adjaye). Our built environment is forming us. Not only our life habits and perceptions, but also our inner Self, our psyche. We live what we build, and what we build is what we live, from the daily ways of life to our very Self.

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Architecture and imagination. Sagrada Familia, Barcelona. Photo U. Gehmann

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

‘An idea is salvation by imagination’ (Frank Lloyd Wright). All architectural concepts begin as an idea. When one is creating, one steps into one’s imagination and brings forth images and concepts. The direct result being that what was the original idea became reality due to the imagination.

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Architecture as a stage. La Cavalerizza, Castelfranco Veneto/Italy. Photo U. Gehmann

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

‘Architecture is the stage on which we live our lives’ (Mariam Kamara). Architecture as a stage delivers to a community a structural essence that has a purposeful reality. On a stage, one depicts culture and society based on storylines from the members collectively participating in the creation.

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Zuccari, Villa Farnese, Caprarola/Italy. Photo U. Gehmann

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

‘The acceptance of certain realities doesn’t preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs’ (Rem Koolhaas). To create reality, one has to create an ideal upon which to build a reality. Every reality that exists came from a focused idea which then transposed the irreal to real..F.

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Ideal Spaces Working Group @idealspaces.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

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