Fundamental Concepts of Architecture : The Vocabulary of Spatial Situations

141 simplified interpretations of form complexes. In vision, spe- cific forms are filtered out of the wealth of optical stimuli ...

142 successively staggered spatial units, or split up by an encoun- ter with an edge, its flow nonetheless maintained by angles, ...

143 One example is the wall effect created by a row of columns in a way consistent with the principle that is termed the ‘law of ...

144 so that we clearly perceive right angles, for example, despite minimal deviations. We become aware of this capacity for acco ...

145 iour, and find ourselves compelled to a performative response. Architecture can communicate gesturally in ways that are anal ...

146 times, however, this may involve suggestions for movement that we can cannot possibly perform, but only imagine, one instanc ...

147 equilibrium, or by enlarging our base of stability by widening our stance. Our relationship to the ground is ambivalent. Nor ...

148 Just as diverse as the modalities of our bodily con- tact with the ground (just think of the manifold postures such as lying ...

149 Two features are characteristic of the hall: first, it is the quin- tessence of the large room, and as a rule possesses a ce ...

150 cles that foster a directionless, meandering type of > roaming. Depending upon the distances between units, the hall may ...

151 actively touches a world that is verified as physically real through touch. ‘The human individual articulates the world thro ...

152 ing touch of the hands. This visual-tactile appeal accounts for a substantial portion of the powers of attraction – but also ...

153 > beauty, proportion > sensory perception, sound > furnishing According to Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel, the stuff ...

154 vertical stance, which defines our position, stabilizes all of our spatial perceptions. Inclined walls and tilted ground pla ...

155 be reversed in order to avoid effects of heaviness. Without the stabilizing structure of base, walls and roof, for example, ...

156 > dwelling, residence > body (human), form character, ground, plane, postures > courtyard garden > dwelling, ima ...

157 sion that which is presented in mediated form via imagery, for example the dynamic of the ship metaphor in Modernism (> s ...

158 tive viewing. But it also offers the advantage of being ame- nable to substantial control, and is easily reproduced and glob ...

159 though one had been inserted into an image by the architec- ture. Corresponding to the pictorial act, through which the obse ...

160 By nesting spaces inside one another by means of incorpora- tion, fundamental operations of containment and the penetra- tio ...