In contrast to the theoretical nature of space, its experience turns away from abstraction into experiential and existential place. Space in architecture is always a concrete and adjective space, situation or atmosphere, not a conceptual abstraction. Architecture is deeply engaged in this lived meaning of space as well as in experiential time.

Architectural constructions are built in the world of matter and Euclidean geometry, but lived space always transcends the rules of physics and geometry. Architecture structures and domesticates meaningless physical space for human habitation by projecting existential meanings onto it.