&dwel SI658 Winter 2015
ling
places
1. Dwelling & Places
2. Poetics of Space
3. Group Time

http://www.slideshare.net/AbbyCovert/making-sense-of-place-midwestux-2013-keynote
Descartes, Cartesian Grids
1650
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/mpc2010004005/PP/
Dwelling itself is always 

a staying with 

things

.

Martin Heidegger
The way in which you are
and I am, the manner in
which we humans 

are on the earth, 

is dwelling
.


Martin Heidegger
“Existential foothold”
and “dwelling” are
synonyms
.
Christian Norberg-Schulz
SELF
things
WORLD
SELF
things
WORLD
NOT ALL
STRUCTURES
ARE DWELLINGS
ALL DWELLINGS
ARE PLACES
Dwelling implies something more
than “shelter.” It implies that the
spaces where life occurs are
places in the true sense of the
word. A place is a space which
has a distinct character. The place
represents architecture’s share in
truth. Christian Norberg-Schulz (1979)
‣ Usable?
A place is a place only because it
affords meaningful action. We
can create structures that we
intend to be perceived as places,
but it is up to the perceiver to
find meaning in those structures
that resonate as “place.”
Andrew Hinton (2014)
NOT ALL SPACES
ARE PLACES
PLACES
ARE NOUNS
THAT GATHER
https://www.flickr.com/photos/spraginator89/
1960
1960
SPACES ARE
PREPOSITIONS
THAT ORDER
1960
1960
1960
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
1977
2013
DOMAIN
PATH
PLACE
1980
To be somewhere implies
more than location; it involves
primarily identification 

with the particular character 

of the places, paths and
domains in question
.


Norberg-Schulz
1962
“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context”
CHARACTER
IS
ADJECTIVAL,
ARTICULATED
Domain
Place
Paths
Domain
Place
Paths
“The Structural Integrity of Meaning Across Contexts”
- Jorge Arango
Places are goals or foci where we
experience the meaningful events
of our existence, but they are also
points of departure from which we
orient ourselves and take
possession of the environment.
Place is therefore experienced as
an inside. Christian Norberg-Schulz (1975)
2. Poetics of Space



3. Group 

Breakouts



Residential Architecture
Room Assignments
Group 1: 2185WQ
Group 2: 1243WQ
Group 3: 1286WQ
Group 4: Lecture Room

Si658 Class 3 - Lecture - Winter 2015