The main component of this essay focuses on architectures' problematic relationship in dealing with issues of the virtual. It poses the argument that these ideas need not manifest themselves through the built form, literally and physically but rather through the experience or the senses. It agrees that virtuality does exist, however it emphasizes on other approaches in thinking about virtualities. In this respect, these are laid out under two common themes i.e. the familiar and the unfamiliar through the works of Diller & Scofidio, Vito Acconci and several others.

This essay does not propose any solution at this stage except a probable one through a thorough re-examination of the familiar, in the hopes to clarify, even slightly, this virtual-architecture dilemma.