Interiority

"The space inside that building, is the meaning of that building". Frank Loyd Wright

Περιεχόμενο> The greek word for what it is inside or included in something. Interestingly enough it also stand for or . That reminds me of another interesting word: Im-portance. Looks like the usage of language implies the same thing as architecture: Being inside of something has to do with deepening in its meaning and thing-ness (M. Heidegger term: what turns one thing into A thing, the condition of its being a thing. "Was das Ding zum Ding be-dingt"). That also has something to do with "interiority" in art and architecture. Between wars it was Theo Van Doesburg and De Stjl' s movement's: "Grand vision of placing man within the painting instead of in front of it".

Utsu signifies the void inside something: a cave in a rocky mountain; the hollow of an old tree; the space of the dugout, or canoe; or the cavity of a pit dwelling. All of these voids where thought to house the sacred spirit. As people' s ideas of the void became more and more ritualized, even a solid gemstone was believed to internalize a void; and a sack of cloth. without holes for hands and feet, was thought to host the sacred God. The more removed an object was from exteriority, the more sacred was considered its internal void. When a certain thing was sanctified, it was then thought to contain an internal void- an imagined void...
"My own recently completed architecture can be defined as utsu (void) + fune (boat) as in the ancient, sacred dugout, which contains a hollow space inside...Utsu is fed by the dynamism of paradox in seeing everyday things as containing a vacuum, or conversely, in visualizing a vacuum as things, as everyday objects."
Arata Isozaki "Any-thing", 2001

These views shared by the japanese New Wave architects(1970) lead to the experimental internal micro-cosmos, as a defensive answer to the aggressive and chaotic urban condition of the post-war Japan.
Curiously and sadly enough the essential task of the architect of constructing internal spaces has been diminished to a Neo-Productivistic, Life-stylistic invention of the term interior design& decoration...