The Poetics of Space

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Anthony Vidler, The Architectural Uncanny: Essays on the Modern Unhomely (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992), 63–66. For a feminist reading along similar lines, suggesting that the dream of dwelling “in the bosom of the house” is a male fantasy not shared by most women (for whom the house is more a place of labor than repose), see Sharon Haar and Christopher Reed, “Coming Home: A Postscript on Postmodernism,” in Christopher Reed, ed., Not at Home: The Suppression of Domesticity in Modern Art and Architecture (London: Thames and Hudson, 1996), 257–258.

No, what finally turned me off was the way he blithely extrapolated from his experience growing up in early twentieth-century provincial France to discover profound truths about universal, essential human nature. Almost none of his arguments, none of his conclusions, had any weight with me, since they were all built on assumptions about how we experience space as children that had nothing to do with my own experience, nor the experience of anyone else I knew. After about four chapters, I could no longer see any point continuing on -- I had winnowed out everything there was for me to get from the book, and it wasn't much. Every nook and cranny, every secret, mystical corner, each minute detail of your home and of the enthralled childhood you once enjoyed would flood your heart with a forgotten, Elysial joy... The house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace."Juhani Pallasmaa is an architect, professor emeritus, and writer in Helsinki. He is former rector of the Institute of Industrial Design Helsinki. His many books include The Embodied Image, The Thinking Hand, The Architecture of Image, and The Eyes of the Skin. These little boxes store the memories of our lifetime. Little memories that are really sacred to us and that we can tap into at different times of our lives." Ricœur, Paul (1970). Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-02189-5. Danielewski, Mark Z. (2014). "Foreword". The Poetics of Space. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-310752-1. Space that has been seized upon by the imagination cannot remain indifferent space subject to the measures and estimates of the surveyor. It has been lived in, not in its positivity, but with all the partiality of the imagination.”

One of the most resonating passages from the book discusses the concept of the house as a repository of memories: "Memory aids the individual in the dense texture of dreams. It is an abundance of history that the soul loves and by which it is enriched.", Something I couldn't agree more. Isobel Eganis a ceramic artist living and working in Ireland. Her work is included in a number of permanent collections including the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin and the Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan. that he uses poets and writers as the basis for his study of intimate spaces. More specifically, the poet's image, which arises purely, in a realm before thought or language, springing forth without history or context or reason. The image is Bachelard's tool for studying the essence of safe places in which (and for which) daydreaming takes place, like the house, the drawer, and the shell. The phenomenologist, like the poet, is interested entirely in the essence of a thing, which often has only weak ties to the actual physical reality of a thing. Since I also live almost entirely in the imagination, Aurosa Alison is a professor of Landscape Aesthetics at Politecnico di Milano and in Digital Aesthetics at the University of Naples, Federico II. She is editor-in-chief of the international journal, Bachelard Studies. Her PhD thesis focussed on Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space.

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Gaston Bachelard, The Psychoanalysis of Fire, trans. Alan C. M. Ross (Boston: Beacon Press, 1964), 1, 6. Bachelard] is neither a self-confessed and tortured atheist like Satre, nor, like Chardin, a heretic combining a belief in God with a proficiency in modern science. But, within the French context, he is almost as important as they are because he has a pseudo-religious force, without taking a stand on religion. To define him as briefly as possible – he is a philosopher, with a professional training in the sciences, who devoted most of the second phase of his career to promoting that aspect of human nature which often seems most inimical to science: the poetic imagination …” The Poetics of Space was first published by Presses Universitaires de France in 1958. In 1964, the Orion Press, Inc. published the book, with a foreword by the philosopher Étienne Gilson, in an English translation by the writer Maria Jolas. Beacon Press republished the work in English in 1969. In 1994, it republished it in a new edition with an added foreword by the historian John R. Stilgoe. [3] [4] [5] In 2014, Penguin Books published an edition with a foreword by the novelist Mark Z. Danielewski and an introduction by the philosopher Richard Kearney. [6] [7] [8] Reception [ edit ]