During the first decade of the 2000s, I grew dissatisfied with the state of architecture, which had become overly focused on form, taking to the extremes the principles of postmodernism and deconstructivism that had shaped the architectural discourse in the previous century. With the definitive capillary diffusion of CAD technologies, since the early 2000s, or shortly before, new formal possibilities…
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…
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…
This video-clip is a survey on Perception and Geometry and illustrates the process of constructing an architectural form, using as case study the preliminary concepts behind my project for the Växjö Tennis Hall. The three-dimensional model presented—its lines and surfaces defining an architectural text akin to a texture, what I call archi-texture or archi-textures (see the related article)—may be seen…
I briefly come back to the renewed sense of place I’ve spoken about in the previous article – What Is Place? What Is Space? – where I’ve said that ‘place is any real entity emerging from inorganic, organic, social and symbolic – or intellectual – processes’ (definition I-R. a); more extendedly – and including a basic definition of reality on…