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.
The theater is an overlay of five circuit systems performing separate roles each disregarding the organization of the other. So I am not fighting function as have so many who turned against the Bauhaus towards formalism. They are always with us. Like the artist, the architect's search must be made alone. We can talk about collaboration with other men, planners, researchers, men of specialized technical knowledge, but ultimately the architect must make the balanced decisions and judgements.