In the captions that describe the images of the 74 buildings contained in the seminal book for architects, […]
Category Archive: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS
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 and personal assumptions I have […]
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 […]
In October 1933 the American philosopher and mathematician Alfred North Whitehead delivered two lectures at the University of […]
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
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 […]
I was working on the previous article concerning Heidegger and the Thing when the radio I usually listen […]
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 […]
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 […]
This article is the continuation of the previous one – Space and Place: A Scientific History – Part […]
With the present work, I begin a series of two articles which deal with the scientific perspective on […]
I consider Edward S. Casey’s book The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History my raison d’être in the critical […]
I briefly come back to the renewed sense of place I’ve spoken about in the previous article – […]
This article is especially focused on the etymology and semantics of space and place; it is the prosecution […]
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 […]
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…’ – […]
1. Space and Place Are Cross-Cutting Concepts As an introduction to this website, there are a few preliminary […]
