Given the problematic status of “space” in Western thought, it would be better to say that it is a matter of constructing a new place with a new form—a new way of building not just at or on a place but building place itself, building it anew and otherwise. EDWARD S. CASEY, The Fate of Place That was Casey’s response…
It is clear that [this void space], which is obviously nothing, cannot have an actual existence. JOHANNES KEPLER, Epitome of Copernican Astronomy 1. Reality, the Circle of Reality, the Environment, and Spatial Concepts In a previous article, New Realism for Architects, I introduced the new realist hypothesis, which recognizes that both material (mind-independent) and immaterial (mind-dependent) aspects of reality are…
Lachlan Turczan’s installation – ‘Lucida’ – transforms light into matter, crafting spaces where the intangible becomes tangible, and perception shapes reality. MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE, Milano Design Week 2025 Making the Invisible Visible: installation by the American artist Lachlan Turczan in collaboration with the Google design team, Milano Design Week 2025, 7-13 April, Milano, IT. What is made visible in…
In 1982, Christopher Alexander and Peter Eisenman, renowned architects and theorists, engaged in a witty, biting, and ironic debate on harmony in architecture — ‘Contrasting Concepts of Harmony in Architecture’ — at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. The debate was published in the Italian magazine Lotus International n° 40 (1983), and later reprinted in Studio Works 7, by the…
I return to one of the arguments that interested me the most since I entered the spatial debate: the realism of space. This question inevitably connects to the spatial language we use to describe phenomena between concrete and abstract aspects of reality. But, most of all — I will especially argue in the final part of the text — this…