Founding member of Anamorphosis Architects, Nikos Georgiadis, guest edited the March issue 1998 of the Architectural Design magazine, called Tracing Architecture.

by Nikos Georgiadis, AD March 98, p.26

'Urban Fantasy' is a composition which highlights the spatial problematic in Andrew Samuels and Andreas Empirikos texts ('Citizens as Therapists' and 'In the Street of Philhellenes' respectively, appearing in Architectural Design 'Tracing Architecture' March 1998. pp.24-27). Real positioning puts in operation an extended urban site beyond 'natural' and 'visual' figurations of space, cutting accross domestic - public, inside - outside, close - distant, polarisations, thus re-employing the objectal world away from discursive enclosures. It specifies a spatial-subjective commitment rather than a mere placement of subjectivity in space. Morphological propositions are produced not as applications of ideas but as overlocalisations of them. In a 'spatial statement' space is not the background to a human scenario but actually foregrounded through personal real positioning. The difference between flâneuring and citizenship comes into play here: the former as space-consuming, applying endless symbolic scenarios, the latter as space-proposing. The first idealises and disables space (always in fragments); the second registers with the accomplishedness of positions. The crucial debate is also reopened between individual and person; between the West European logico-spatial modelling of totality as a catholic application to the local, and the East/Greek European spatio-logical concept of totality as revelation of the local.~

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