Archeo-Tec's rediscovery of a historical ship in San Francisco provided a good starting for this project and its theoretical exploration. The found ship opens up and orients this discussion on architectural space, historical concern, and philosophical speculation of time, space and being. The encounter of time, space and being inspires the theoretic construction in this thesis from the start and pervades its presentation. In the course of inspecting their encounters, we are forced to face the most primary and basic problems of human existence and its most palpable production, architecture. These primordial concepts are themselves privileged to differentiate the theoretical categories of architectural historiography. The subsequent result is an examination and re-classification of the role that these primordial concepts play in a selected course of theory, from classicism, through functionalism, to post-functionalism. The exploration of such primordial notions, however, are not the end, but a process to be used to condition further discussion on representation which can be defined as the means of describing and reflecting the human world in verbal notational system, and production which refers to the postulation that the interactive world is capable of producing and reproducing itself in a non-verbal language. The notion of production throughout the thesis deals with the violation of the limit of subject and object, rather than their interaction. To enforce the ground of such theoretical exploration, three case-study projects are made in accordance with the gradation of categorized beings. These three cases are designed to cover the dialectical relationship between representation and production at different levels, which involve the perceptual world, historicity and architecture as totality respectively. The gradual unfolding of dialectical representation and production leads to the production of an architecture of representation, the final product in this thesis. This project broadens the prior discussions to the vision of architecture in context of discussions on biological perception, historical phenomenon, cultural identity, urban pattern and life, and linguistic analogy. The validity of this proposition is based on its broad investigation and navigation of the sea of contemporary theoretical discourse, in hopes of understanding the functionality and value of tradition.