Images Available on The GBC CD-ROM . The literal articulation of all programmatic elements tends to reinforce the object quality of the buildings, thus making a spatial response to the context almost impossible. Still, to a greater or lesser degree, both buildings are essentially nonspatial in character.
Space is either all-pervasive and passive, or a calculated, encapsulated volume.
Consequently, space is not used as the meditator or articulated link between the building and its context. It might be argued, in the case of the Mummers Theater, that it has no urban context worthy of recognition. With the Mummers Theater in Oklahoma, referred to by Johansen as a 'fragment, not a building,' structure, function, and circulation are referenced by more fanciful electronic terminology. Whereas in the Beaux Arts, circulation was expressed by a hierarchy of movement systems of different widths and prominence according to the importance an amount of traffic and organized with respect to centrality and balance, Johansen's movement notion is one of tubes that support flow. Spaces are static, tubes express movement.