As our visual perception is increasingly flooded with stimuli, potential

ways of perceiving space have also been affected to a greater degree.

The viewer is deprived of the right to form an independent opinion, and

there is a concomitant need for new spaces of freedom. There is a

need for a subjectivity capable of constantly renewing and expanding

the borders of perception. Viewers must be given free play to arrive at

their own individual interpretation in order to make autonomous perception

possible.

This monograph describes the construction of reality through the

cognitive subject, and, associated with this, potential ways for producing

space. The book studies methods for exposing, through indeterminacy,

the definition of space to a larger field of possibility within personal

interpretation, and thus virtually debordering space. Against a historical

background of past attempts to deborder space visually, new possible

ways of indeterminately defining space through the modulation of

light are shown. The analysis of various modulation phenomena is illustrated

with references to works of art, and the phenomena are studied

with a view to integrating them in the actual production of space.

The modulation of light has the potential of creating diffuse and

ambivalent characteristics on space-defining surfaces. This fuzziness

offers an opportunity for a freer interpretation of spatial definition and

thus also for debordering space due to the process of perception. New

materials and technologies can be used to create spatial worlds that

open up genuine, hitherto unknown realms of cognition and experience.

Based on multilayered, ambiguous spatial situations, according

to the author, new open spaces of perception are possible and thus an

expansion of human consciousness as well with respect to the world

around us.

Markus Jatsch is an architect and a partner in the firm Jatsch Laux

Architects in Boston and Munich. He studied architecture at the University

of Stuttgart and at Columbia University, New York, and received a

doctorate in architecture and philosophy from the Technical University

of Munich. He has held teaching positions in Europe and the United

States and is internationally active as a specialist in spatial studies and

the production of space.

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