Physical Space and Imaginary Space. An implement in architecture education

In a world where the boundaries between real and virtual seem to be becoming more and more diluted, a discussion of imagined space (created in the imagination of the individual) or imaginary space (fictitious, unreal, utopian) becomes interesting, especially from the point of view of architecture – a discipline that operates precisely with the drawing of limits, both physical and boundaries of the perception of the real and the imaginary.

From this point of view, we will refer both to the preoccupation to the virtual space (with its possibility to exist, but without this being a condition) or the imagined one (created with a certain intention and having an assumed author, as a means of theorizing the physical architectural space). Thus, it is to be studied on the one hand how we can train students in architecture education to understand and conform the space, and on the other hand, the way in which the imagined space and the conceptual exercise can influence and possibly improve the architecture project in practice.