In Japanese, ma, the word for space, suggests interval. It is best described as a consciousness of place, not in the sense of an enclosed three-dimensional entity, but rather the simultaneous awareness of form and non-form deriving from an intensification of vision.

Discoveries made about the structure of space and time always react on the structure of the mind. Other kinds of discovery enrich human knowledge without affecting its basis. However, anything to do with conceptions of space will suggest very different ways of constructing knowledge. – Gaston Bachelard

Chapel of Nôtre Dame du Haut

Le Corbusier, 1955 Ronchamp, France

THE VAULT OF HEAVEN

SPIRIT OF DESIGN SPIRIT OF PLACE, 2004 French Port, Erris Peninsula County Mayo, Ireland Metaphor: In the time it takes to read this sentence, the sun will travel 1,500 miles in its orbit around the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. The great unmoved mover has moved…the music of the spheres has awoken, visions ...

Handcrafted Modern: At Home with Mid-century Designers

Written by Leslie Williamson, Published by Rizoli. I get lost in this book every time I open it. Excellent straight-to-the-source material for those who love mid-century design. + Leslie Williamson

Tomba di Brion

Carlo Scarpa, 1972 San Vito d’Altivole, Italy  

CHAPEL OF ST. IGNATIUS

Steven Holl, 1997 Seattle, WA, United States

WAINWRIGHT BUILDING, CONSTRUCTION

Louis Sullivan, 1890-92 705 Chestnut Street, Saint Louis, Missouri It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, of all things physical and metaphysical, of all things human and all things superhuman, of all true manifestations of the head, of the heart, of the soul, that the life is recognizable in its expression, ...