Introduction When most people think of promenade, they imagine an objective field containing fixed beginning and end points as well as interstitial points of interest. Many architects who have studied the theme of promenade and incorporated it into their understanding of architecture have attempted to establish other such points of interest or spatial milestones along a spatial procession as if it were a timeline, marked with events and times that are ridged in their constraints. The major quandary lies in the fact that a promenade is actually projected onto the architectural reality through the consciousness of the Subject traversing it, and not purely existing as a strict linear progression. Le Corbusier would suggest that promenade can be synthesized as a “series of successive volumes, acting on our sensitive being, provoking physical, physiological sensations.”1 What he is suggesting here is that space acts upon the individual in an intrinsic manner.
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The promenade does not solely exist in the world until explicitly derived by the Subject at hand, distorting the notion of an objective field into a more schematic field. This notion can be described as the calculated reciprocity between Subject and architectural landscape. The points of interest along this version of promenade are more fluid in their relation to space-time and respond accordingly to a Subjective presence. The way these spaces reveal themselves of themselves largely reflects the thought processes of the individual in question. Phenomenological acquisition of the Subject derives the cultural representation embedded in the schematic field and shapes his intentionality of circulation. Modern society’s preference of image however has placed a distracting filter on this mode of representationthat Guy Debord terms, the spectacle. The objective of the spatial series now becomes to make aware the spectacle to a Subject’s projection of consciousness, in order to understand how the filter has changed the schematic field’s original meaning. This study will illustrate the many cognitive effects of the