… it is helpful to think of architectures as ‘archi-textures’, to treat each monument or building, viewed in its surroundings and context, in the populated area and associated networks in which it is set down, as part of a particular production of space. HENRY LEFEBVRE, The Production of Space This article explores how the concepts of space and place shaped…
Architecture creates spaces and modifies places for dwelling. That is my definition of architecture: a discipline primarily concerned with space, place, and dwelling, which is its ultimate scope. A discipline in-between the ideal (or mental) and the physical (or corporeal), the abstract and the concrete, actuality and potentiality, being and becoming. Spaces, which are ideal and abstract entities, can be…
The argument I am introducing here stems from my initial inquiry into the relationship between architecture and the concept of environmental sustainability—an issue I began working on in the latter part of the first decade of the new century. The first draft of this document dates back to late 2012, conceived as the architectural continuation of a broader inquiry into…
This video-clip is a survey on Perception and Geometry and illustrates the process of constructing an architectural form, using as case study the preliminary concepts behind my project for the Växjö Tennis Hall. The three-dimensional model presented—its lines and surfaces defining an architectural text akin to a texture, what I call archi-texture or archi-textures (see the related article)—may be seen…
In September 2014, I participated in the 5th Global Conference on Space and Place, at Mansfield College, Oxford, UK. The conference was organized by Interdisciplinary.net, a former British Association for Interdisciplinary Research and Publishing. My paper, titled From Space to Place, A Necessary Paradigm Shift in Architecture, was included by the organizing committee in the section under the heading ‘Rethinking…