In the captions that describe the images of the 74 buildings contained in the seminal book for architects, […]
Category Archive: Epistemology
The recent spread of a new biological menace — the novel virus SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus […]
Since I was an undergraduate student at the School of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano, in the 1990s, the […]
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
— attributed to CONFUCIUS
One of the main tenets of my inquiry into the concepts of space and place can be synthesized […]
… does not. Heidegger’s introductive paragraph of the book What Is a Thing? — which is the extended […]
1. The Fabric of Reality and its Continuum In this article, I will use the terms continuum, physical […]
I briefly come back to the renewed sense of place I’ve spoken about in the previous article – […]
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
The traditional and well-established meaning of a concept crystallized into a specific word should be the starting point […]
1. Young Man at His Window This is just common sense: look out the window of your home […]
From Space To Place: Introductory Video
Introductory video clip of the talk – ‘From Space to Place: A Necessary Paradigm Shift in Architecture…’ – […]
