space and place "the question of space and place within the realm of spatiality is ultimately not jsut about whether the question of "where" maters in the way that "when" does in explaining "how" and even "why" something happens" (p1. space and place) the purpose of this introduction is to introduce and examin the terms which encompass the investigation into the thinking about the monumentalization and politics of space. broadly expanded upon, the English oxford dictionary dedicated five of is pages in defining the possibilities of the words space and its relative place. summarized, space can be largely regarded as the dimension within which matter is located or a grid within which objects/items are arranged. the geographical meaning, "a portion …show more content…
Scale too has been greatly debated, often not even having been associated with space and place. the common use of both words have lead to an alternate understanding. one which may be associated with the scale of time. the usage of the word place have come to be associated with the local and traditional and space within the global. From this it can be deduced that place has a sense of nostalgia to an effect of which the word stimulated emotions of regression and thus reactionary. space then to the other end of the scale, radical. (pg.7 space and …show more content…
It was of great concern at the time that the German cities lacked monumentality and grandeur. it was for this reason that Hitler appointed Speer. Speer has a unique ability to give "material form" to spatial megalomania. For Hitler, the monumentality of Speers architecture was not simply about the art of giving form to space but also the art of creating power through monumental spatial forms. It has been shown by critical architects that the manipulation of space has extensive political implication when it comes to the control pf movement and visibility in times of conflict. He argues that space can in fact be designed in such a way as to be used as weaponised forms of
Harm de Blij and his “The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny, and Globalization’s Rough Landscape” truly describes how geography is displayed in the world today. In particular on of the major themes that he discusses is the idea of globalization. He actually calls these people the “globals.” In the very beginning of his book he describes two different types of peoples: Locals and Globals. The difference between these people is that Locals are the poorer people, not as mobile, and more susceptible to the concept of place. On the other hand the Globals are the fortunate population, and are a small group of people who have experienced globalization firsthand (5). This idea of globalization is a main theme that Blij refers to throughout the book, however he also indirectly references the five themes of cultural geography: culture regions, cultural diffusion, cultural interaction, cultural ecology, and cultural landscapes. Through Blij’s analysis these five themes are revealed in detail and help explain his overall idea of globalization in the world today.
in the equally codified language of space (marking territories with graffiti in the city, the
The charisma of Hitler and the Nazi Party’s message convinced him to join on January 1931. By member connections and having similar interests in architecture, he became part of Hitler’s inner circle. In 1934, Hitler appointed Speer as Inspector General of the Reich, after the death of the chief architect. Speer then designed the Nuremberg parade grounds and the Reich Chancellery-the office of the German government. The building of the Reich Chancellery was extraordinary as it was designed and built within a year. Speer also designed the German Pavilion. It was for the 1937 Paris International Exposition; an exhibit of the arts and technology. The building indicated disapproval of the Soviet Pavilion. Speer’s overarching challenge was to rebuild Berlin in order for it to become the new capital. Most of his grandiose designs for Berlin, however, were not able to be built due to World War
An individual’s ‘Sense of Place’ is predominantly their place of belonging and acceptance in the world, may it be through a strong physical, emotional or spiritual connection. In Tim Winton’s novel ‘The Riders”, the concept of Sense of Place is explored through the desperate journey of its protagonist, Fred Scully. Scully’s elaborate search for identity throughout the novel is guided and influenced by the compulsive love he feels for his wife Jennifer and their family morals, the intensity of hope and the destruction it can cause and the nostalgic nature of Winton’s writing. Two quotes which reflect the ideals of a person’s Sense of Place are “Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.’(Aldous Huxley) and “It is not down in any map. True places never are.” (Herman Melville). Huxley and Melville’s statements closely resemble Fred Scully’s journey and rectify some of his motivations throughout the text.
After Troost’s death in 1934 Speer was titled as chief architect and was given the task for redesigning the permanent site for the nuremberg rallies. He was responsible for creating the ‘cathedral of light’ to maximise the ‘God-like’ image of hitler at the Nuremberg Rally. In 1937 he was renamed to ‘General Building Inspector’ for construction of the ‘Reich Capital’ (GBI) and placed in charge of Hitler's ‘pet’ project, the redevelopment of ‘Germania’ the new Berlin in 1937, where he was given the task of building the ‘New Reich Chancellery’ which was to survive for the ‘thousand-year Reich’. Within a year Speer had built and designed a massive complex in the neo-classical style. The building was complete on time in January 1939, and it was intended to impress and intimidate the people who would visit it, particularly the leaders of other countries, this was to show the power of Nazi party that it has possessed. Moving on, in January 1934 Hitler gave Speer his first major commission, to build the permanent reviewing stand for the Nuremberg Really. Speer, as an Inspector for the Third Reich, was solely responsible for the design of Germania and the logistics of building Hitler’s grand capital. His ability and skill to construct the new capital resulted in gaining Hitler's trust as he proved to be an ‘efficient worker’ writes Hitler. With Hitler’s architectural interests and his dream of rebuilding Berlin to show off ‘Germania’, Albert was given the task of translating Hitler’s dream into reality, and thus he was titled ‘Generalbau- Inspector’. Due to his consistent work in Germania, Speer and Hitler’s relationship grew closer, which resulted in Speer attaining more national respect and
Kant’s definition of space helps him prove that the concept of space is a form of intuition. Space, he holds, is everything that is sensed outside of us. The mind is the inner sense and everything else is in space. We then represent objects in that space, where they are interpreted as having s...
...lves the confirmation of the boundaries of the social world through the sorting of things into good and bad categories. They enter the unconscious through the process of socialisation.’ Then, “the articulation of space and its conception is a reminder that time boundaries are inextricably connected to exclusionary practises which are defined in refusing to adhere to the separation of black experience.”
The ways in which people are placed within “time space compression” as highly complicated and extremely varied. For instance, in the book Nickel and Dimed, Barbara said, “ Something is wrong, very wrong, when a single person in good health, a person who in addition possesses a working car, can barely support herself by the sweat of her brow. You do not need a degree in economics to see that wages are too low and rents too high”(127). Barbara has a car so that she can drive to her workplace and save the time from waiting public transportation, and she also can go to different cities whenever she is free. Therefore, she has more control of her mobility. The social relations would change when she went to another city. Different social groups have distinct relationships to this anyway differentiated mobility: some people are more in charge of it than others, like Barbara; some initiate flows and movement, others do not; some are more more on the receiving-end of it than others. Instead of thinking of places as areas with boundaries around, they can be imaged as articulated moments in networks of social relations and understandings, but where a large proportion of those relations, experiences and understandings are structed ona far larger scale than what we happen to define for that moment as the place itself, whether that be a street, or a region or even a continent. We can see that from her different work experiences in different places. And this in turn allows a sense of place which is extroverted, which includes a consciousness of its links with the wider world, which integrates ina apositive way the global and the
The concept of place, home and community is a transnational and trans-community concept. Human places have just recently been given political boundaries. Previously, human boundaries were determined the same way that animal, plant, and ecosystem boundaries were defined. They were defined by ecology and they were defined by geography of region and hemisphere.
One particularly useful cross-disciplinary element employed in concrete poetry is the use of space. The poetry of Emmett Williams, Seiichi Nikuni, and Ilse and Pierre Garnier in particular, make use of spatial relationships in their poetry. The use of space can be employed in place of traditional grammar and syntax to convey meaning in concrete poetry, particularly when the spatial position of one element is taken into consideration with other elements of the poem. Another element that may arise from these spatial relationships is a temporal aspect that all poetry employs, but which becomes uniquely meaningful in the context of the concrete poetry of the twentieth century. Without these relationships concrete poems may appear as crude distortions of words on a page, with no significant sense or meaning to communicate. Therefore, the temporal/spatial relationships between poetic elements become necessary tools which the reader needs in order to fully understand the linguistically driven meaning behind many concrete poems.
Q: Use St Peter’s basilica and Donato Bramante’s Tempietto in Rome, in opposition to John Balthasar Neumann’s Pilgrimage Church of Vierzehnheiligen in Bamburg, Germany, to argue that a rational engagement with architecture is a more effective means to comprehend and understand architectural form.
Irwin, Mary. “Sense of Place”. Interview by Interview by Mrs. Thibo’s H-English 10 class. 12 May 2010.
Located in once the bombarded Berlin, a new language of architecture emerged. It appears with multiple contradictions, yet not confliction, from itself to the surroundings and within its own construction. That is the Berlin Jewish Museum, submitted by the young Daniel Libeskind in a competition to provoke the unsavory history of Berlin very soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The Western tradition in building museum is twisted by its expressionistic form, not merely to house the remains, the relics, the display of art, it stands by itself naked, untreated to house the ghost of German Judaism, a rare opportunity to visit an empty building for its such high profile budget. The challenge is to excavate the memory that was already there but suppressed by the medium of contemporary architecture, uncanny. This essay is to analyze the capturing of a spiritual existence from a part of the bygone Berlin, and the museum’s capacity to address one of the most profoundly tragic events of the twentieth century, the Holocaust, in the use of light, material, and structural methods of construction. Moreover, this study is an attempt to evaluate the Libeskind’s response to the concept to reveal the implication in its shape, and its spatial quality. This project is also a chance to examine the interdisciplinary character of architecture in combining social-cultural relationship, psychology, history, theory, music, material methodology, vision, etc. To be able to do that, the architect’s background and his operations of process to the problem will be shortly studied, then his solution in dealing with the res...
Space is something everyone experiences. However Eliade points out that different people have different reactions to the spatial aspect of the world. A profane man may experience space/spaces homogenously, “ no break qualitatively differentiates the various parts of its mass.” (pg. 22). For an example a profane man might classify a mall and church in the same way because he sees no religious value within them, but he then could regard a hospital sacred because that may be the place of his birth (in page 24 Eliade such sacredness is worthless). A religious man, on the other hand, could look at that same space, a mall and a church, and differentiate the sacred space, also known as the cosmos, from the profane space, also known as the chaos. In this case the religious man would classify the church as sacred place because it has some holy value and the mall as the profane space because it has no holy value at all. In clearer terms the the profane space is h...
Over the past few centuries, after mankind had almost fully embraced the thought of living life within the confines of a city, the people in charge of the maintenance and upkeep of the sprawling metropolises that now dominate the world scene have used methods that are equally alike and different in order to accomplish their goals. Often considered one of the first great city planners of pre-modern times, Haussmann was given the task to recreate the sprawling mass that Paris had become into a landmark of both beauty and power. His personal style, although having its own fair share of critics, is now considered to have been at least fairly successful in completely retrofitting and modernizing the monuments, the roadways and the main public systems that we have grown accustomed to seeing in today’s Paris. Many of the same schemes that Haussmann employed his citywide power are still in use today, but as time went on modern planners have also brought new ideas to the table. Robert Moses was able to completely revolutionize the thought of how much power a city planner could actually have, but at the same time he displaced thousands of people. His housing architecture and magnificent public buildings made Frank Lloyd Wright famous, but history remembers him most for his attempt to create the perfect planned community. Most recently the leaders of the Masdar project have been grabbing the limelight in the world of city planning, as they attempt to forever change how human beings interact in the urban area around them. As it is with everything involving millions of people, the architects mentioned above laid plans that had both pros and cons in the eyes of the population. Perhaps if all of the more effective methods that these great vision...