The Space speaks! That's a wild thesis as it's also expansive in our mere act of entertaining the concept. More to the point, space possesses syntax as Space Syntax, the legacy of Bill Hillier. I came across this interesting work (Space is the Machine, 1996) in architectural theory while thinking about the analogs of natural construct of a project graph based schedule, the so call bare project works precedence diagram, basically a directed graph of project works. A project graph also resembles a building architected by the project total flow of works. That all projects ultimately will be realized in forms of a constructed facility (like a power plant) or a product (an instance of materialized configuration of requirements -to -performance) are all examples of a commensurate aspect of architecture: there are architectures within this main architecture (software residing on a controller system serving a special machinery). Hillier talks about architecture as a space of externalized configurations on interior space, our mental constructs of relations among other relations (his abstract but intuitive definition of Configuration). We project our notions of space and its inner relations into constructed buildings within environments. How would two different engineered constructs like the Suez Canal (in news lately for its human caused choking) and the San Francisco Gold Gate compare? The latter is relatively modern (commissioned in 1937) whereas the Suez Canal has been an elaborative and progressive causeway for more than 2000 years. Both of these systems are communicating an idea of connectivity with their own variations and specific internal relations, the aesthetic space of Golden Gate should overwhelm Suez Canal...! Hillier's thesis in Space is the Machine (discussing his Space Syntax) is also addressing the dual of syntax, the semantics in terms of configuration. These are fine and the subject matter experts will debate. Hillier’s thesis of configurational space or a theory of configuration of architecture is very close to Von Foerster’s idea of eigenform. I wonder if Bill Hillier was aware of this (second order) cybernetic concept? Ali