No other aspect of the environment is so paramount to the creation of attitude, tone, feeling and shape. Architects argue over it, builder's try for it, owner's rent it out, tenants hope for it; it even has its own adjective: spacious. And yet it is so mysterious. Paint your ceilings white and make your furniture transparent and you will create the illusion (however uncalled for) of space. Look up into the sky and you can see it, describe it, videotape it, photograph it, and yet it is spectacularly unattainable. It calls to mind roomy estates, or starry skies, both of which impress and never fail to register a certain sense of awe. To believe in space is to believe in the architect's dream, in God. Its why Gothic cathedrals inspire such faith, such benevolent love.
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