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Category Archive: PHYSICOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS

Place Space and the Unicorn

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With this article, I want to make a point on the main traditional and personal assumptions I have […]

December 25, 2020 Linguistics, PHYSICOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS, SOCIAL SYSTEMS, SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS, Transdisciplinary

On the Structure of Reality

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“… static patterns of value are divided into four systems: inorganic patterns, biological patterns, social patterns and intellectual […]

September 5, 2020 BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, General Systems Theory, Metaphysics, PHYSICOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS, SOCIAL SYSTEMS, SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS

Same Space Different Place

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The recent spread of a new biological menace — the novel virus SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus […]

June 16, 2020 BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, Biology, Ecology, Epistemology, General Systems Theory, Human Geography, PHYSICOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS, Politics, SOCIAL SYSTEMS, Transdisciplinary

The Place of Processes: Nature and Life

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In October 1933 the American philosopher and mathematician Alfred North Whitehead delivered two lectures at the University of […]

June 16, 2020 BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, BOOKS, Philosophy, PHYSICOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS, Physics, SOCIAL SYSTEMS, SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS

Architecture as Place of Sustainability

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The argument I’m introducing regards the result of my initial inquiry into the relationship between architecture and the […]

June 16, 2020 Architecture, BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, Earth Sciences, Ecology, General Systems Theory, PHYSICOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS, Politics, SOCIAL SYSTEMS, Sociology, SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS, Transdisciplinary, Urban Planning

The Place of Sustainability

The Place of Sustainability. Image: Alessandro Calvi Rollino Architetto
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In the second part of the first decade of the 2000s, I felt very dissatisfied with the current […]

June 16, 2020 Architecture, BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, Earth Sciences, Ecology, History, PHYSICOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS, Politics, SOCIAL SYSTEMS, SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS, Transdisciplinary, Urban Planning

The 3rd Skin

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In this article, I will analyse the traditional spatial vocabulary of a pioneer of modern architecture, Richard Neutra, […]

June 16, 2020 Architecture, BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, BOOKS, General Systems Theory, PHYSICOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS, Physics, Physiology, Psychology, SOCIAL SYSTEMS, SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS

Limit Place Appearance

The Place of a Thing. Photo: Alessandro Calvi Rollino Architetto
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Since I was an undergraduate student at the School of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano, in the 1990s, the […]

April 14, 2020 Architecture, Epistemology, Linguistics, Metaphysics, Phenomenology, PHYSICOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS, Physics, SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS, Transdisciplinary

What Is a Thing?

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One of the main tenets of my inquiry into the concepts of space and place can be synthesized […]

March 21, 2020 BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, BOOKS, Epistemology, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, PHYSICOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS, Physics, SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS

Place Kicks Us Back, Space…

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… does not. Heidegger’s introductive paragraph of the book What Is a Thing? — which is the extended […]

November 18, 2019 Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy, PHYSICOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS, Physics, SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS, Transdisciplinary

Place, Space, and the Fabric of Reality

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1. The Fabric of Reality and its Continuum In this article, I will use the terms continuum, physical […]

September 23, 2019 Architecture, Epistemology, Geometry, History, Linguistics, Metaphysics, PHYSICOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS, Physics, SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS, Transdisciplinary

Space and Place: A Scientific History – Part Two

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This article is the continuation of the previous one – Space and Place: A Scientific History – Part […]

September 23, 2019 BOOKS, Geometry, History, PHYSICOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS, Physics, SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS

Space and Place: A Scientific History – Part One

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With the present work, I begin a series of two articles which deal with the scientific perspective on […]

September 20, 2019 Astronomy, BOOKS, Geometry, History, PHYSICOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS, Physics, SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS

The ‘Topos’ of a Thing

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I briefly come back to the renewed sense of place I’ve spoken about in the previous article – […]

September 10, 2019 Epistemology, Linguistics, Metaphysics, Phenomenology, PHYSICOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS, Physics, SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS, Transdisciplinary

Places Everywhere

Gustave Caillebotte, Jeune Homme à la Fenêtre, 1875
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1. Young Man at His Window This is just common sense: look out the window of your home […]

September 5, 2019 Architecture, BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, Design, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Phenomenology, PHYSICOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS, SOCIAL SYSTEMS, SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS, Transdisciplinary

From Space to Place

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The first article of this website is dedicated to the complete transcription of the paper that I presented […]

September 5, 2015 Architecture, BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, Ecology, General Systems Theory, History, PHYSICOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS, SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS, Transdisciplinary

Preliminary Notes

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1. Space and Place Are Cross-Cutting Concepts As an introduction to this website, there are a few preliminary […]

September 5, 2015 Architecture, BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, General Systems Theory, History, INTRO, Philosophy, PHYSICOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS, SOCIAL SYSTEMS, SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS, Transdisciplinary
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