‘Now what does the word “phusis” say? It says what emerges from itself (for example, the emergence, the […]
Category Archive: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS
Certainly—giving up the ordinary and going back into questioning interpretation is a leap. Only one who takes the right running start can leap. Everything is decided by this run
— MARTIN HEIDEGGER
This is the continuation of Being as Place: Introduction to Metaphysics – Part One, where I presented Heidegger’s […]
Based on the new translation of Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics (2000), this article, aside from presenting Heidegger’s metaphysical […]
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
With this article, I shall turn my attention back to the diffusion of the concept of space in […]
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
Images 01-02: From space-time — early study painting for the Vitra Fire Station, © Zaha Hadid Foundation — […]
In the captions that describe the images of the 74 buildings contained in the seminal book for architects, […]
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 […]
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 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, […]
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 shall commence a series of two articles which deal with the scientific perspective […]
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…’ – […]
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, following important scientific advances, a reconsideration of basic natural phenomena is […]
rethinking space and place 