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just, that. To talk about chapter 5124 <UN> a thing as a thing, a “mere thing,” would seem to be an empty exercise; for to talk about something meaningfully, we need to talk about what is relevant, or what is recognized as belonging to the whole human world of thinking, living, and acting. For
© koninklijke brill nv, leiden, ���7 | doi �0.��63/97890043400�5_00� <UN> Introduction Taking possession of space is the first gesture of living things, of men and animals, of plants and clouds, a fundamental manifestation of equi- librium and of duration. The occupation of space is the first
human body in stone: that is, when it succeeds in expressing the organic, the free, in the inorganic and un-free solidity and immobility of stone. Architectural forms, Hegel argues, never transcend the inorganic in this way; freedom as a living organization never finds direct expression here, the
recall that architec- ture and engineering draw from a common military origin, and that military 5 Quoted in Giedion, Space, Time, and Architecture, p. 216. 6 I should emphasize that it is precisely the philosophical question of the nature of architec- tural knowledge that is motivating the present
elements of orientation is that of the body, understood as comprising a field of spatial potentialities that have as their structuring basis the kinaestheses of the perceiving body and their motivated correlates in the sensuous manifestations of things. As we saw, the salient characteristic of this
living, in its being a life as such, must also take a certain shape in order for the accomplishment of the very manifestation of being in the form of that which has sense to be possible. Subjectivity is not univocal. More, this “shape” that experience must take is of a different kind than the shape of
wealth, independence, and modern quality of life. It is also on the level of the general strategic concept if towers are concentrated at only certain points of a wall without any defensive reasons. In the city wall of Akarnanian Torybaia, dated to the late fifth or early fourth century BCE , Judith Ley
adjacent theatre as well as on the Salamis relief, but a different unit appears in the neighbouring building from the same century. Tanner also considers the function of these cult buildings, usually identified as naïskoi, and finds evidence for a wider range of potential uses. Part 2, “Life History of
Reyes (hereafter San Juan), especially its church, the main focus of this chapter. He has become ‘synonymous’ with inventive and highly decorated buildings that influenced architectural developments after his death. 1 Thus, international exchange gave a new lease of life to the Gothic, which continued
, 244 and communication 242 and expression 241–243 and fragility 241 and landscape 241 and presence 241, 243 presence of intentional life in 241 science 6, 13, 18, 54, 55, 57 a-philosophical 54, 55 explanatory 56 industrial 20 legitimacy of 57 mathematical 18 mechanics 13, 18 modern 5, 6, 55