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Floor
Once a surface for symbolic expression – defining the way spaces are used, the “rules of the game ” – floors in the 20th century tended towards a purely Cartesian surface,
rational, undecorated,unloved, always perfectly flat, ideally soundless. Simultaneously with our neglect of their programmatic, symbolic, and haptic potential, floorspace became the dominant economic metaphor for architectural space.