From the very first time I passed under the red-black capital ‘A’ above the entrance of the School of Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano, I began confronting the question every architect or student of architecture asks: What is Architecture? Image 1: Main entrance of the School of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, IT. Architect: Vittoriano Vigano’ (project/realization: 1970 –…
What does the Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo (CR7) have to do with concepts of place and space? A lot: I believe that examining CR7’s gestures on a football pitch can provide valuable insights into the seamless continuity between ‘body’, ‘place’, and ‘existence’. I mean actual, concrete, bodily existence in a specific place, or even better, existence as being-in-place, which…