THE SPACE OF FLOWS: MANUEL CASTELLS

Starting by exploring the theory of space and time and the effects of the development of electricity in the formation of technology. Telecommunication has impacted the traditional definition of space. Castells explores how information technology has impacted the definition of a corporation and how space no longer defines the organization’s work space as many members [...]

SPACE AND POWER: REYNER BANHAM

Banham’s article considers space in the sense of art and architecture. Architecture was mostly either horizontal or vertical, but mostly horizontal. Until the end of the renaissance era, space was considered to be an interior space. It was until Barbeque architecture emerged that the space began to externalize and as the concept of infinity started [...]

Protected: THE SMOOTH AND THE STRIATED – GILLES DELEUZE + FELIX GUATTARI

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TOM MCDONOUGH, “SITUATIONIST SPACE”

The situationist thought looks at space in a fragmented way. One great example is the Naked City developed by Guy Debord which shows a fragmented map of paris that does not have a sense of orientation. The idea of the naked city is to free the map of all the standard tools that come with [...]

THE PHENOMENON OF PLACE: CHRISTIAN NORBERG-SCHUL

Every place a phenomenon of its own, the article talks about how public and private are spaces are often confused with each other with the introduction of the different complex function of each space and since the separation between them is not always obvious. In every piece of architecture one can notice that although different [...]

BUILDING, DWELLING, THINKING : MARTIN HEIDEGGER

What is difference between building and a dwelling? Heidegger starts his question by discussing the difference and the relationship between the two categories. The building is required for the dwelling to occur; however, not all buildings are dwellings. The author then proposes the point that evens those buildings that are not classified as dwellings fall [...]

Protected: THE RISE OF NETWORK CULTURE – KAZYS VARNELIS

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Protected: BIOLOGICAL SOVEREIGNTY – EUGENE THACKER

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THE PRODUCTION OF SPACE – Henri Lefebvre

Lefebvre discusses the point where the awareness of space and its production emerged. The Bauhaus looks at things as they are not created independently of each other in space. The production of space establishes itself in the social consciousness of society. The Bauhaus “Did more than locate space in is real context or supply a [...]