Liquid Architectures: Marcos Novak’s Territory of Information

The contemporary idea for interaction has embraced new understandings of the content of experience and the structure of space. New electronic technologies and advanced digital media have separated realities from the realm of the body and transformed experiences into ubiquitous events. The architectural discourse, once largely a discourse of form and style, has overcome these limitations and encountered, in territories of information, the product of a new way of thinking. Marcos Novak emerges in this context of multimedia as an innovative creator whose "liquid architectures" represent a break with the traditional discourse of physicality. His creations are meant for a virtual domain, and information is what structures this new territory for architectural practice. With respect to Novak's structures, the approaches to virtual spaces posited by scholars of new media culture over the past few decades, either through phenomenological aspects of the bodily existence and modes of experience or through the poststructural metaphoric manifestation of codes and symbols, do not suffice. While Novak's work does embrace both philosophies, it also transcends them by crossbreeding the reality of the individual with the virtuality of the structure. Indeed, his architectures require a new concept of space to come forward, where the manifestation of the mind in the realm of the body calls for what is to be perceived as real. Architecture is now characterized by the fusion of information, art, and technology