Instead the reader will see with the soul of the eye, the glint of Gaston Bachelard. Every reader of it will never see ordinary spaces in ordinary ways. First published in French in 1957 and translated into English in 1964, Gaston Bachelards philosophical meditation on oneiric space appeared at a moment. Underwood (Translator) 3.96 avg rating 46 ratings published 1978 21 editions.

The Right to Dream (Bachelard Translation Series) by. A prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced-and enchanted-significances. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. It is about the architecture of the imagination. It is still theory, and so not a light read, but the daydreams and thoughts this book inspires whilst reading make. This book implicitly urges architects to base their work on the experiences it will engender rather than on abstract rationales that may or may not affect viewers and users of architecture. French cultural theory is known for its wordiness and complexity, and yet in The Poetics of Space, Bachelard largely transcends these potential pitfalls and instead produces a meditative, poetic book that was not what I expected. He is thus led to consider spatial types such as the attic, the cellar, drawers and the like. In The Poetics of Space, Bachelard applies the method of phenomenology to architecture basing his analysis not on purported origins (as was the trend in enlightenment thinking about architecture) but on lived experience of architecture. The Poetics of Space (originally in French: La Poétique de l'Espace) is a 1958 book by Gaston Bachelard.

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