Si658 Class 3 - Lecture - Winter 2015

&dwel SI658 Winter 2015lingplaces

1. Dwelling & Places2. Poetics of Space3. Group Time

http://www.slideshare.net/AbbyCovert/making-sense-of-place-midwestux-2013-keynote

Descartes, Cartesian Grids 1650

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/mpc2010004005/PP/

Dwelling itself is always a staying with

things .

Martin Heidegger

The way in which you are and I am, the manner in

which we humans are on the earth,

is dwelling.

Martin Heidegger

“Existential foothold” and “dwelling” are

synonyms.

Christian Norberg-Schulz

SELFthings

WORLD

SELFthings

WORLD

NOT ALL STRUCTURES

ARE DWELLINGS

ALL DWELLINGSARE PLACES

Dwelling implies something more than “shelter.” It implies that the spaces where life occurs are places in the true sense of the word. A place is a space which has a distinct character. The place represents architecture’s share in truth. Christian Norberg-Schulz (1979)

‣ Usable?

A place is a place only because it affords meaningful action. We can create structures that we intend to be perceived as places, but it is up to the perceiver to find meaning in those structures that resonate as “place.”

Andrew Hinton (2014)

NOT ALL SPACESARE PLACES

PLACESARE NOUNS

THAT GATHER

https://www.flickr.com/photos/spraginator89/

1960

1960

SPACES AREPREPOSITIONSTHAT ORDER

1960

1960

1960

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0

1977

2013

DOMAINPATH

PLACE1980

To be somewhere implies more than location; it involves

primarily identification with the particular character

of the places, paths and domains in question

.

Norberg-Schulz

1962

“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context”

CHARACTERIS

ADJECTIVAL,ARTICULATED

DomainPlace

Paths

DomainPlace

Paths

“The Structural Integrity of Meaning Across Contexts”- Jorge Arango

Places are goals or foci where we experience the meaningful events of our existence, but they are also points of departure from which we orient ourselves and take possession of the environment. Place is therefore experienced as an inside. Christian Norberg-Schulz (1975)

2. Poetics of Space

3. Group Breakouts Residential Architecture

Room Assignments Group 1: 2185WQ Group 2: 1243WQ Group 3: 1286WQ Group 4: Lecture Room