The previous article could be read as a prologue to the present one: that article — Place Space […]
geometrical space
With this article, I want to make a point on the main traditional and personal assumptions I have […]
The 3rd Skin
In this article, I will analyse the traditional spatial vocabulary of a pioneer of modern architecture, Richard Neutra, […]
… does not. Heidegger’s introductive paragraph of the book What Is a Thing? — which is the extended […]
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
1. Space and Place Are Cross-Cutting Concepts As an introduction to this website, there are a few preliminary […]
