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INSIDE THIS CLAY JUG : Vessel makers that recall the eidetic origination of our own mental space   Architecture that forces us to confront our own spatial intelligence by moving us so much that we  recall the eidetic origination of our own mental space. (Schaik,2008:80) ‘The phenomenology of space – the matter of how we experience…

A PAINTING IS BOTH CONCEPTUAL AND SENSATE, Robert Mangold : Towards a spatial inquiry   COLLAGE and ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICES THE TRANSPOSITION AND ABDUCTION OF PLACE What protects us against delirium or hallucinations are not our critical powers but the structure of our space. The Phenomenology of Perception, Merleau-Ponty The Field-Fieldwork-Ethnography-Anthropology The Body-Spatiality-Creative Practices- Arts and…

A reflective building is an echo not a statement : SENSING AND SPATIAL PRACTICE IMMATERIAL ARCHITECTURES MAKING IN THE LANDSCAPE SCULPTURE TRAIL 2018 The House-sheds : Camping There’s more truth about a camp than a house. Planning laws need not worry the improvising builder because temporary structures are more beautiful anyway, and you don’t need…

SPATIAL INTELLIGENCE through the conscious use of personally inflected mental space Architecture that forces us to confront our own spatial intelligence by moving us so much that we recall the eidetic origination of our own mental space.(Schaik,2008:80) “Thus we cover the universe with drawings we have lived. These need only to be tonalized on the…

MORE FORMING THAN FORM : Sensorium, Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film Landscape/Sensorium : Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film. Sensorium : A Partial Taxonomy, Caroline A. Jones. Drawing into the contemporary sociological imagination Contemporary artists aim to produce specific relations with the technologies they adopt and adapt; This schematic offers a partial taxonomy. Caroline…

Discursive Readings : Further Reductions and Fabrications Bricolage/Reading : Further Reductions and Fabrications The Production/use of Space into Places to engender Societies. A site specific induced inquiry into dwelling and building through/by way of an attentive awareness (anthropological) to people and place. ‘What I am post interested in now is inverting the structure of a…

Making Gestures and Connections in Space : Anecdote of the Jar   Making Gestures and Connections in Space.  The Memory of Objects. The Provocative Combination of Densities. I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. The wilderness rose up to it, And…

‘Architecting’ : Making, Building, Dwelling, Thinking, concretizing existential space Heidegger : Poetically Man Dwells. “Man builds in that he dwells” Building Dwelling Thinking. 1951 ‘Architecting’ :  Making, concretizing existential space Ann Cline A Hut of One’s Own Life Outside The Circle of Architecture. Herzog  and De Meuron NATURAL HISTORY Heidegger “resolutely romanticised the rural and…

Inquiry is essentially the way of learning : Fragile Architectures of Hapticity and Time  In an era in which architecture is once more learning its potential as a form of inquiry, rather than as a service — as a producer of knowledge, and not merely of ‘projects’. Brett Steele, Atlas-Tectonics in Barkow Leibininger, Bricoleur Bricolage.…

Hortus Conclusus : A Serious Place, Peter Zumthor, working ideas. Hortus Conclusus : A Serious Place Hortus Conclusus : Enclosed Garden Often translated as meaning “a serious place” To construct a contemplative room, a garden within a garden. Pavilion as both a monumental physical structure and as a site of emotional encounter. With a refined…