‘Now what does the word “phusis” say? It says what emerges from itself (for example, the emergence, the […]
Category Archive: BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space and place
On the Structure of Reality
“… static patterns of value are divided into four systems: inorganic patterns, biological patterns, social patterns and intellectual […]
I continue the series of articles on the relation between architecture and the environment, proposing a brief contribution […]
The recent spread of a new biological menace — the novel virus SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus […]
In October 1933 the American philosopher and mathematician Alfred North Whitehead delivered two lectures at the University of […]
The argument I’m introducing regards the result of my initial inquiry into the relation 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, […]
One of the main tenets of my inquiry into the concepts of space and place can be synthesized […]
Chōra
This video-clip is a survey on Perception and Geometry and it shows the process of construction of an […]
I am also asking the reader to suppose that the concept of space has nothing to do with perception. Geometrical space is a pure abstraction… The visual third dimension is a misapplication of Descartes’s notion of three axes for a coordinate system. The doctrine that we could not perceive the world around us unless we already had the concept of space is nonsense. It is quite the other way around: We could not conceive of empty space unless we could see the ground under our feet and the sky above. Space is a myth, a ghost, a fiction for geometers. All that sounds very strange, no doubt, but I urge the reader to entertain the hypothesis.
— JAMES J. GIBSON
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 […]
From Space To Place: Introductory Video
Introductory video clip of the talk – ‘From Space to Place: A Necessary Paradigm Shift in Architecture…’ – […]
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, following important scientific advances, a reconsideration of basic natural phenomena is […]
rethinking space and place 