Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space and place
Category Archive: Architecture
Concerning the last issue on the ambiguity of spatial language and its specific application to the domain of […]
With this article, I shall turn my attention back to the diffusion of the concept of space in […]
I arrived at the conclusion that whatever space and time mean, place and occasion mean more, for space in the image of man is place, and time in the image of man is occasion. Split apart by the schizophrenic mechanism of determinist thinking, time and space remain frozen abstractions... A house should therefore be a bunch of places - a city a bunch of places no less.
— ALDO VAN EYCK
Images 01-02: From space-time — early study painting for the Vitra Fire Station, © Zaha Hadid Foundation — […]
In the captions that describe the images of the 74 buildings contained in the seminal book for architects, […]
The previous article could be read as a prologue to the present one: that article — Place Space […]
The Feeling for Space and Place. Photographic report on how the concepts of space (spazio) and place (luogo) […]
I continue the series of articles on the relationship between architecture and the environment, proposing a brief contribution […]
Architecture creates spaces and modifies places for dwelling
The argument I’m introducing regards the result of my initial inquiry into the relationship between architecture and the […]
In the second part of the first decade of the 2000s, I felt very dissatisfied with the current […]
The 3rd Skin: Survival Through Design
In this article, I will analyse the traditional spatial vocabulary of a pioneer of modern architecture, Richard Neutra, […]
Since I was an undergraduate student at the School of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano, in the 1990s, the […]
Chōra
This video-clip is a survey on Perception and Geometry and it shows the process of construction of an […]
1. The Fabric of Reality and its Continuum In this article, I will use the terms continuum, physical […]
1. Young Man at His Window This is just common sense: look out the window of your home […]
The first article of this website is dedicated to the complete transcription of the paper that I presented […]
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, following important scientific advances, a reconsideration of basic natural phenomena is […]
rethinking space and place 