Banham’s article considers space in the sense of art and architecture. Architecture was mostly either horizontal or vertical, but mostly horizontal. Until the end of the renaissance era, space was considered to be an interior space. It was until Barbeque architecture emerged that the space began to externalize and as the concept of infinity started to become more visible in architecture. With the introduction of fast transportation and space travel, people are able to travel long distances and experience places far beyond their imagination. Infinity is projected in futuristic architecture that uses infinity to project the human ambition that will only grow as time goes by. Many examples of infinity are present in today’s architecture, one would be the CN tower in Toronto for example, it is made to direct the viewer to look upwards and is designed in a way that expresses infinity its form. Infinity was always looked upon as a form of metaphor that cannot be achieved.
As architecture is mostly a response of the culture, how would architecture evolve as humans keep on expanding? Will there be a limit where architecture will reach a threshold or are we going to keep on witnessing an open ended cycle of evolvement?
