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Philosophers and practitioners of architecture have long studied the relationship between physical spaces and ritual, ritual and the creation of culture, culture and the embodiment of thought.
It’s why, as a complete novice to the field, one of the first things you learn is that architecture is an irreducible mode of thinking in its own right . It’s... See more
It’s why, as a complete novice to the field, one of the first things you learn is that architecture is an irreducible mode of thinking in its own right . It’s... See more
Rebecca • Architecting digital spaces
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How can one design a space for connection, solitude, beauty, contemplation, belonging or creativity?
Patricia Mou • vol. 49: when picking furniture becomes spiritual
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Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular and strenuous demands upon us. It requires that we open ourselves to the idea that we are affected by our surroundings even when they are made of vinyl and would be expensive and time-consuming to ameliorate. It means conceding that we are inconveniently vulnerable to the colour of our wal
... See moreAlain de Botton • The Architecture of Happiness (Vintage International)
A designer’s belief about the behavioral influence of spaces on users is foundational to the designed outcomes of a space.
John A. McArthur • Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move (Digital Formations Book 110)
Not only do we think with our bodies, we also think with habitat. The qualities of the natural and artificial world inevitably shape our ideas and our creations. Architects and interior designers know full well that people think and feel differently inside various structures. And of course, we experience radical differences in emotion and cognition
... See moreFrank Forencich • The Art is Long: Big Health and the New Warrior Activist
same: the realization that space is designed to elicit particular responses.
John A. McArthur • Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move (Digital Formations Book 110)
While a complex, stimulating environment is useful for providing new insights, a more humdrum setting may be indicated for pursuing the bulk of the creative endeavor—the much longer periods of preparation that must precede the flash of insight, and the equally long periods of evaluation and elaboration that follow... We need a supportive symbolic e... See more
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
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“What it would be like to live in a mental world where one’s reasons for making something functionally, and one’s reasons for making something a certain shape, or in a certain ornamental way are coming from precisely the same place in you?
Precisely the same place.”
— Christopher Alexander
Building Beauty
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