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Since its founding, SPACE has devoted itself to curating, creating, designing and crafting this book in a way that stayed true to our interests, our values, and our passions. Thank you all for your unwavering support, genuine kindness, and unmatched patience. It hasn't gone unnoticed as we worked tirelessly over the past two years to get this body of work to you. You have our utmost gratitude.
Books are important—physical books are important. We know that we are made to feel like the digital world is all we need now. It feels like our physical essence is being eroded and lost - geographies, communities, landscapes, spaces, books, and so much more. We share and scroll past countless images across our multitude of platforms, rarely connecting with the actual image or its meaning. The content of architectural work across these platforms frequently feels volatile, ambiguous, superficial, and repetitive. The poor image has been uploaded, downloaded, shared, reformatted, and re-edited. It transforms quality into accessibility, exhibition value into cult value, films into clips, contemplation into distraction. As consumers of the image, we begin to ask "What is this content showing me?" Content should explore a diverse set of ideas, thoughts and experiments. It should investigate the real and unreal, the tangible and intangible, the viable and invisible. When content does this, that is embracing the pluralistic nature of design work and designers, it shifts the discourse—ranging from the immediate and the local to the far-reaching and global. Through these discussions we are then able to engage with subjects beyond what is simply presented or understood.
Understanding the gravity of this we've moved with intention, criticality, and passion. This first volume was an ongoing labor of love and we can't wait for you all to engage with the incredible and awe-inspiring work and interviews that have made their homes on our pages. To have built such a community of students and professionals across schools, institutions, firms, and countries fills us with such delight!
We at SPACE have grown as designers, thinkers, critics, photographers, creators, and people. We hope that this volume allows for others to grow as well. Delirium offers many rooms, landscapes, oceans and universes to cast your being into. May you scour the pages of remarkable student work and inspiring interviews with professionals and find what you're seeking. We hope you find the joy and pride that these students have in their excellent work and that it touches you. Let yourself be moved by the professionals, both established and rising, and see that the discipline is mutating and expanding in thrilling and stimulating ways. May you find yourself blissfully lost among its pages again, and again, and again. It is my desire to see that this volume and the ones that supersede it keep challenging and expanding the domains of architecture and publications.