Fundamental Concepts of Architecture : The Vocabulary of Spatial Situations

21 consequence, and despite the opposition between interior and exterior, between vision and connection, the architecture pro- v ...

22 even call on architecture to render the world graspable via the medium of its spatial structuring. Architecture is not restr ...

23 elevated place. The magical attractiveness of heights seems to be an anthropological constant. As soon as children learn to w ...

24 associated with greater intimacy. Sharp divisions between sto- reys are avoided, especially where they are overcome through t ...

25 The type of ascent depends upon the length, breadth and changes of direction of ramps or staircases, their slopes and materia ...

26 Architecture is experienced primarily through the atmos- pheres it generates. What surrounds us in a work of archi- tecture i ...

27 constrictive or oppressive, spacious or expansive, elevating or uplifting. The > orientation through which a space turns i ...

28 the nonmaterial factors of > sound, > aroma, and in particu- lar > light and > darkness. As expressions of total ...

29 purposes, at which point the generation of atmospheres be- comes an exercise of power. Literature: Böhme 1995a, 1998, 2006 &g ...

30 poles, and the gradual processes of approach or distancing that can be experienced here across wide expanses, this princi- pl ...

31 By virtue of their spatial connection to the terrain and the necessity for secure foundations, works of architecture differ f ...

32 temples as the first islands of civilization within inaccessible terrain. Under certain circumstances, the task of the base, ...

33 2001). In aesthetic experience, the percipient is not classified conceptually ‘as something’; instead, it is experienced in i ...

34 together with regularity, originality with familiarity, and com- plexity with order, counts as a continually recurring condi- ...

35 Throughout much of history, the principal task of architec- ture was to erect and design body-like objects; only much later w ...

36 the > porousness of ancillary rooms as though by caverns. Through a > space/body continuum, architectural bodies me- di ...

37 elements and hollow volumes, or of endowing a building with an impression of weightlessness. For the most part, it is the ext ...

38 implements, things, including walking sticks, spectacles, the compartment of a vehicle, the interior of a house. For Mer- lea ...

39 spaces suggest > oscillation, since our eyes are incapable of circumferential vision. The dividing character of certain wa ...

40 > door and gate, inside and outside, intermediate space, screening, surface, territory, threshold, wall > comfortablene ...