Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space and place
Category Archive: Transdisciplinary
Concerning the last issue on the ambiguity of spatial language and its specific application to the domain of […]
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, […]
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) […]
The recent spread of a new biological menace — the novel virus SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus […]
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 […]
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 […]
… 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 […]
Education is the ability to perceive hidden connections between phenomena.
— VÁCLAV HAVEL
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 […]
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 and […]
rethinking space and place 