Gernot Böhme

Monday, October 2, 2006 at 14:30 - 18.00

Arkitektstkolen Aarhus

Nørreport 20

8000  Århus C

Møderum A, Udstillingsbygningen

Der er begrænset antal pladser, og tilmelding bedes ske ved henvendelse til forskningssekretær Helle Thomassen på telefon 8936 0131 senest den 26. september 2006.

Place and space in Architecture

One of the most attractive aspects of thinking about space seems to lie in contrasting different concepts of space - the space of the physicist, the space of living reality, the space of the stage set designer; space in psychoanalysis, the space of the landscape planner, the space of the lyric poet, space in architecture. But when juxtaposing different concepts of space in this way the question necessarily arises whether there is a unified space in the background - a space which is merely conceived in different ways - or whether there is some common element in the concepts themselves which justifies us in grouping them together as concepts of space.

There is one difference between concepts of space that seems to me undeniable, and it is a difference so great that it seems almost impossible to bridge. It is the difference between the space of bodily presence and space as a medium of representation. This difference will be made explicit in my lecture and applied to architecture.