Building on the issue of ambiguous spatial language and its application to architecture (see On the Ambiguous Language of Space), I want to make a digression. My aim is to extend the scope of our architectural discussion and deepen the spatial/placial question in relation to humanity’s understanding of reality. At the same time, I wish to return to the reasons…
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…
One of the main tenets of my inquiry into the concepts of space and place can be synthesized by the following assertion: at the fundamental level, for me, things and places are the same. It is as if there is just one entity (or sub-stance, in the metaphysical sense of that which stays under what appears), which I can call…
… does not. Heidegger’s introductory paragraph of the book What Is a Thing? — which is the extended subject of the forthcoming article — is particularly appropriate for further clarification concerning the concepts of place and space (or, at least, it is appropriate for clarification concerning my proposal for rethinking those concepts). As the title of the book suggests, Heidegger’s…
Education is the ability to perceive hidden connections between phenomena.[1] Václav Havel Note [1] in Fritjof Capra, The Hidden Connections (London: Flamingo, 2003), viii. Image Credits Featured Image by Alessandro Calvi Rollino Architetto: ‘Archi-texture’, Ydañez Museum, Puente de Genave, ES (in collaboration with architect Sandro Panarese), CC BY-NC-SA