This book is the fruit of more than forty years of my research connected with thedescription, analysis, comparison and systematisation of architectonic forms interms of space. This research began in the 70s and first culminated in the thesiswhich established me as an assistant professor. Its title was “On the spatial structureof works of architecture: the methodological principles of description, analysisand systematisation of spatial arrangements”. It was published in 1979 inZeszyty naukowe Politechniki Śląskiej w Gliwicach (The Scientific Bulletin of theTechnical University in Gliwice). In the following years, I continued my researchinto the subject with various levels of intensity which resulted in several publications(Niezabitowski, 2004, 2005, 2009). These were mainly articles and conferencelectures. The main plot – the structure of space in architecture and its hypotheticaluniversality never ceased to appear throughout the research and, alongthe way, was enriched by new methodological approaches. (...)