In the captions that describe the images of the 74 buildings contained in the seminal book for architects, […]
concept of space
… 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
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 begin a series of two articles which deal with the scientific perspective on […]
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…’ – […]
1. Space and Place Are Cross-Cutting Concepts As an introduction to this website, there are a few preliminary […]
