The electronic environment finally extended our very nerves outside our corporate spaces. By carrying the whole world on the skin, our being, always somewhere else, is filled with emptiness. Different kinds of movement were invented to bring it back.
The paradigm of the contemporary man is an individualistic non-historical-TV-viewer-narcissus who daily hyperinvests into his unbearable lightness of emptiness. This syncretic, contradictory, actively indifferent character is hedonistically oriented towards the momentary, no longer bothered by the difficulty of work but by the difficulties of leisure.
In our permissive liberal societies, through the media and gadgets of the third machine age, we daily create worlds of virtual reality, which are an undisputed fact and represent a reality-realer-than-the-real. Interpretation equals fact in this global hypersupermarket where preprocessed and prepackaged liquid goods approach everyone like sirens that seduce, satisfy and immediately disappear. Here, everything is consumed, without an interphase, at the very moment of its creation.
Today there exist at least three natures: natural, technological and phenomenological, but consumers hardly refer to more than one. Along with developing ecology of artificial environment, architecture should finally introduce itself as a medium of transmittance of the phenomenological reality.
The consumerist religion of life a la carte has to change to living life. A life that is fulfilled by living itself. The civilization of visual flamboyance should give place to a more sensible (audio-tactile) culture, where movement, speed and measuring will become irrelevant. They should be replaced by real communication, true compassion and non declarative ecological consciousness.
Omnipresent patterns of uncertainty will resemble the anticipatory, non routine environment of aquatic scaping and semantic fields. The viscosity of fluid open systems will permit holistic organizations of plexing and pliant subsystems where natural multiplicity, diversity and variety substitute movement.
Referring to contemporary medicine which deals with undiscovered possibilities of the human body and mind, architects should enter the hidden chambers of the microcosm of everyday life. Whatever they come up with it still has to have a body, but its soul has to change from the transcendental sphere to reality. Both the virtual and the ritual part of environmental events in synthesis should substitute the common in-between-heaven-and-earth-physical-structure-buried-with-equipment.
Technology is still the answer, but what is the question? As for the ritual part, it is further development of new building materials like foam metals or liquid glass, but mainly a new relationship with the traditional ones. The role of the virtual part will be rendering perceptible the qualities of unperceivable - hearing the images of darkness and touching the sounds of silence...
Architecture should introduce a new unity of schizophrenically secularized contemporary perception. Selfsimilar natural scaping with no scale, no typology and no style should therefore substitute monumental building. The ritual part will be dedicated to the atavistic tactile corporal while the virtual part should feed the inventive fluid spiritual.

P&R Millennium Lament 1999