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
concept of space
In the captions that describe the images of the 74 buildings contained in the seminal book for architects, […]
… all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.
— GEORGE ELIOT
In October 1933 the American philosopher and mathematician Alfred North Whitehead delivered two lectures at the University of […]
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 […]
Many glibly write about the ‘production of space’ when they imply the making of place.
— JOHN AGNEW
I was working on the previous article concerning Heidegger and the Thing when the radio I usually listen […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]