THE OTHERNESS OF ARCHITECTURE: When space becomes medium by H. Masud Taj The subject of architecture is the subject that experiences architecture. Architecture is experienced in the way it is occupied. Hence the manner in which the body is choreographed through a building allows boundaries to be blurred, crossovers to occur and the architecture to unfold. The Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver by Arthur Erickson is a homage to otherness as it succeeds in crossing over to a space that is as totemic as it is (ab)original.