Building on the new translation of Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics (2000), this article presents Heidegger’s metaphysical discussion of Being, and I hope it will contribute to clarifying the foundation for the reinterpretation of traditional concepts of place, space, time, and matter that I am advocating for at RSaP-Rethinking Space and Place. This ground shares many intersecting threads with Heidegger’s concept…
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…
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space and place. This is my reformulation of Mies van der Rohe’s famous definition of Architecture: ‘Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.’ [1] Space, alone, is no more sufficient to describe the systemic complexity of architecture, which, at the beginning of a new era, is better understood…
With this article, I shall turn my attention back to the diffusion of the concept of space in architecture, in the first decades of the XX century. Again, this is to show that space should be preferably understood as an ideal entity (to grasp not without epistemological ambiguities) rather than a physical entity existing ‘out there’; an abstract conceptualization or…
I arrived at the conclusion that whatever space and time mean, place and occasion mean more, for space in the image of man is place, and time in the image of man is occasion. Split apart by the schizophrenic mechanism of determinist thinking, time and space remain frozen abstractions… A house should therefore be a bunch of places – a…