![]() People may affect the building, and the building may affect the people. Once the people live in, the energy inside the house is dynamic. An environology master, David Koh, stated, “When people built the house, the energy inside the house is static. It connects the past to the present and brings about a psychological and emotional connection. The metaphysical aspect of architecture lies within the fact that it influences the user experiences of their inhabited voids in the line of time. Humans occupy the voids yet they fail to understand the meaning of the unseen energy forces that are felt through the experiences they encounter while inhabiting that particular personalized void that is the physical manifestation of the memories and imagination of their own. The void is the nullity that paves way for the energy to flow. People occupy the voids, yet they have a sharp focus on the solids. “Space is nothing, yet we have a kind of vague faith in it.” Surrealism is a fine line that exists between solids and voids, dreams and reality, subjectivity and objectivity. The transformation of the notion began from written to visual art and then towards the spatial voids. The surrealist thought in architecture is yet unidentified and undefined. It has been a thought overlooked for a long, long time. It was a revolution that outbreaks against the societal conventions of the bourgeois society that contradicted the interest of the subconscious mind. ![]() It erupted as a movement against the ills of industrialization. Surrealism began as an Avante-Garde Movement in the 20th century found in Paris, to bring out the hidden truth that disguises itself in the normality of everyday life. The book, ‘Surrealism and Architecture,’ compiled by Thomas Mical, is an anthology of 21 essays exploring the idea of the metaphysical elements involved in architectural designing. Surrealism, a concept of exploring and unfolding the truths and creativity of the subconscious mind, has been a topic for discussion. André Breton Surrealism and Architecture © “I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.”
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