‘Now what does the word “phusis” say? It says what emerges from itself (for example, the emergence, the […]
Category Archive: SOCIAL SYSTEMS
Concerning the last issue on the ambiguity of spatial language and its specific application to the domain of […]
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space and place
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
The previous article could be read as a prologue to the present one: that article — Place Space […]
… all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.
— GEORGE ELIOT
With this article, I want to make a point on the main traditional presuppositions and personal assumptions I […]
The Feeling for Space and Place. Photographic report on how the concepts of space (spazio) and place (luogo) […]
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, […]
Many glibly write about the ‘production of space’ when they imply the making of place.
— JOHN AGNEW
I was working on the previous article concerning Heidegger and the Thing when the radio I usually listen […]
This article is especially focused on the etymology and semantics of space and place; it is the prosecution […]
1. Young Man at His Window This is just common sense: look out the window of your home […]
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, following important scientific advances, a reconsideration of basic natural phenomena is […]
rethinking space and place 