All ideas come from sensation or reflection. Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas. H… - Kengo Kuma

The simplest form of compression is proportional compression. A map reduces space by this means, premised on a bird's-eye view. For the subject, space is reduced to a two-dimensional pattern.

...it is often asserted that, though music and literature are sequential, there is no sequence in architecture. With a work of architecture, one is free to look at the exterior from any direction and at any time one chooses.

“Objects freeze and fix spaces that are otherwise indeterminate and ambiguous, they compress information – and that is why people continue to construct them."