5/21/2023 0 Comments The poetics of space book![]() In the 20th century, distinctions between public and private space were challenged by rationalist architecture and town planning. ![]() This is what the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard called "the poetics of space", and his highly original study of the magical "cosmos" of the childhood home and its imaginary spaces is one of the few literary texts that architectural students are required to read. Folk tales – with their Gothic illustrations - endure through the romance of mountain turrets, forest interiors, lonely cottages, magic casements and secret doors. ![]() ![]() In a tumbledown cottage the wood-cutter's daughter dreams of life in the palace in the palace the young prince believes that in a forest hut lives the woman he is destined to love and marry. ![]()
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