Excellent article, Fiona Cameron Lister.
Another way of looking at this is that space is not nothing. Space has dimensions and characters that architects (the good ones) have been playing with for centuries.
I constantly read space and what it's doing. It has shape, volume, weight, and direction, as well as myriads of other characteristics -- as objects do.
Objects (the mass, if you like) are in harmony with space; actually, they make each other --and enhance each other.
I confess I'm a minimalist and give the space room.
Many thanks. Best.