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- Gaston Bachelard ("Poetics of Space")
- Topophilia = love the space
- Rachel Whiteread = artist whose works primarily talk about negative space
- Pierre Sansot ("Poetics of City")
- He said when you sit in a bistro with a newspaper that means you want to speak to someone
- When you are in a cafe with a newspaper you don't want to speak to someone
- The same item acts as a different signifier in different contexts.
- Roland Barthes
- Semiotics = to know the city you must know the culture of the people
- Emic-Etic = is it the people that make the city or city make the people?
- Pallasmaa
- Sensory relationship:
- auditory
- tactile = touch is important; can attach the feeling of a touch to a place
- discursive
- visual
- olfactory = attached to memory
- Sensory relationship:
- Pitter Zomtor
- Archetype = collective memories
- you're born with it
- e.g.
- most people like the sound of water
- flowers as a symbol of love
- Archetype = collective memories
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- name gives you identity
- number is just a number, it does not give you identity
- when you are different you have your own identify. Homogeneity leads to control.
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