On the risks of thoughts entangled in space (i.e., thoughts entangled in metaphors or abstract notions used to describe concrete facts, happenings, or events): … all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.[1] George Eliot, Middlemarch. ‘Capita a ognuno di noi, sul serio o per scherzo, scoprire che…
In this article, I will analyse the traditional spatial vocabulary of a pioneer of modern architecture, Richard Neutra, as we find it in Chapter 22 — ‘Physiological Space’ – Has Direction and Ranges — of his famous 1954 book ‘Survival Through Design’.[1] My purpose is to see continuities and differences with respect to the reformed understanding of spatial concepts that…
Since I was an undergraduate student at the School of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano, in the 1990s, the concept of space almost exclusively attracted my attention. I soon learned — from critics and architects — that Architecture was a discipline concerned with space; but it took me a while to understand what that really meant; and it took me even…
Many glibly write about the ‘production of space’ when they imply the making of place.[1] John Agnew Note [1] John A., Agnew. ‘Classics in Human geography Revisited’, Progress in Human Geography, 27, 5 (2003), 613. Cited Work Agnew, John A. ‘Classics in Human geography Revisited’. In Progress in Human Geography, 605-614, 27, 5, 2003. Image Credits Featured Image by Mirko…
I was working on the previous article concerning Heidegger and the Thing when the radio I usually listen to in the background began to playing Billy Idol’s notorious hit, Flesh for Fantasy. That song was one of my favourite in the mid-80s, so I pumped up the volume a little bit and I enjoyed its sound for a couple of…