Introductory video clip of the talk – ‘From Space to Place: A Necessary Paradigm Shift in Architecture…’ – that I presented to the ‘5th Global Conference, Space and Place: Exploring Critical Issues’, on Friday, the 5th of September 2014, at Mansfield College, Oxford (UK). Image and Video credits Featured Image (source) by Егор Камелев on unsplash.com Video footage (source) –…
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, following important scientific advances, a reconsideration of basic natural phenomena is underway, as well as a reconsideration of the relationship between man and nature. This fact will lead to the formalization of a new post-Newtonian cosmology, which means a new conception of nature and, therefore, a new model of society. This new mode…
In September 2014, I participated in the 5th Global Conference on Space and Place, at Mansfield College, Oxford, UK. The conference was organized by Interdisciplinary.net, a former British Association for Interdisciplinary Research and Publishing. My paper, titled From Space to Place, A Necessary Paradigm Shift in Architecture, was included by the organizing committee in the ‘Rethinking Space and Place’ section,…
To be (at all) is to be in (some) place Archytian Axiom This is how the Archytian axiom is reported by Edward Casey in the book The Fate of Place.[1] That formulation is slightly different from the original Archytas’ statement Casey refers to, as reported by Simplicius – ‘all existing things are in place or not without place’ –, in…