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…
This article is the continuation of the previous one – Space and Place: A Scientific History – Part One -, an inquiry into the concepts of space and place analysed through the scientific perspective of Julian Barbour’s book The Discovery of Dynamics. Now, the scope is to cover the temporal gap from the moment where Barbour left his work (the…