Configuring appropriate architectural spaces is the main objective of architecture. They are achieved with the help of architectural elements. They are enhanced by relying on the configuration of the environment (urban planning) or by recreating these elements (decorative arts).

Singular architectural spaces are: porticos, hippetres, cellas "Cella (architecture)"), patios, atriums, naos "Naos (architecture)"), crypts, etc.

The concept of architectural space throughout history has been subjected to continuous reflection and review by professionals such as architects and art historians, noting their various forms of thought, based on tradition, theory and architectural culture at the time of the development of the work; also influencing the political and cultural uses of the moment and all at the same time influenced by the many attempts to define space within the scope of philosophy, science and art throughout History.

The concept of space, a new idea of ​​city construction from the 15th and 18th centuries.

Architecture has space as a primary element, it details it and delimits it through volume. Architectural volume and architectural space are independent, and sometimes their feeling and perception do not coincide. Nor does the volume always coincide with the material form "Form (Figure)" that delimits it, since the following vary: the proportion of the interior levels; the visual dimension of color and textures; and the direction of the transparencies.[1]​.

This opposition, between architecture as a space or as a volume, can be seen in how different the buildings are seen and experienced from the outside and seen and lived from the inside: such as, for example, the difference between the interior space and the exterior contemplation of the Pyramids of Egypt; Greek temples such as the Parthenon (designed for external worship, such as the Panathenaean procession, and which house above all the image of the god and the treasure); Christian temples (designed as assemblies - eclessia - of believers, for worship inside, and with precedents in the catacombs and Roman basilicas, with great differences, such as those that exist between a Romanesque church - thick walls, limited lighting and height - and a Gothic cathedral - predominance of opening, height and light -); the Palace of Versailles or the buildings of the in New York and Bilbao.