Breaking the Brexit impasse: Achieving a fair, legitimate and democratic outcome
The Brexit vote problem How should the country (through a House of Commons vote or even through a second referendum) decide between several different options? There are two major difficulties.…
Spatial vs Visual
How we experience space is largely determined by our biopsychology. In 2014 research from Edvard and May-Britt Moser won the Nobel Prize for Physiology and medicine. They discovered a series…
Postmodern vs Contemporary
Deconstructivism is a linguistic movements of the middle to late twentieth century that focused on the primacy of language. Essentially, the deconstructivist believed that an individual's perception was predetermined by…
Historical Spatial Development
The rows below move from left to right in chronological development. The columns, from top to bottom represent geometric knowledge, bodily orientation in space and the built environment of each…
Spatial Perception and Architecture
The Visual Nature of Space Experiencing space is a subtle act of the human body and mind. We use our eyes to visually probe a space, making thousands of subconscious…
What Is Modern Art?
The birth of modernism and modern art can be traced to the Industrial Revolution. This period of rapid changes in manufacturing, transportation, and technology began around the mid-18th century and lasted through…
Modernism In Other Arts And Architecture
Composers, including Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, and Anton Webern, sought new solutions within new forms and used as-yet-untried approaches to tonality. In dance a rebellion against both balletic and interpretive traditions had its roots in the…
What is Modernism in Architecture?
Modernism is a global architecture and design movement emerged in the 1920s as a response to accelerated industrialization and social changes. Pursuing 'order' and 'universals' in architecture, modernism utilized new materials…
Chronology of the Stone Age
The Stone Age begins with the first production of stone implements and ends with the first use of bronze. Since the chronological limits of the Stone Age are based on…
Selected Lines of Inquiry into Philosophy of Architecture
Topics and lines of inquiry into philosophy of architecture have engaged one or more of the preceding movements and illustrate the breadth, intellectual richness, and relevance of the field. Consider…
