If there is anything to write on the subject of Architecture 101, I could not help but wonder is there anything more primordial, more primeval, intuitive or simply more basic than to write about Space and Form?
Architecture students (or for that, matter professionals), generally marvel at Form simply because of its direct visual and tactile nature experienced through their (and our own) baser sensory perception. But Space is not as tangible; and this is where both fumble. It is only natural; otherwise Lao Tzu the philosopher would not have to explain the dialectic ever so elaborately at great lengths. Space it seems, is not very apparent. The tendency has always been to have missed the woods for the trees and the elephant in the room, simply
Architecture students (or for that, matter professionals), generally marvel at Form simply because of its direct visual and tactile nature experienced through their (and our own) baser sensory perception. But Space is not as tangible; and this is where both fumble. It is only natural; otherwise Lao Tzu the philosopher would not have to explain the dialectic ever so elaborately at great lengths. Space it seems, is not very apparent. The tendency has always been to have missed the woods for the trees and the elephant in the room, simply