Dear Bernard,
"Architecture is born of this original discrepancy between
the two spaces -the horizontally oriented space of our
experience and the vertically oriented space of nature; it
begins when we add vertical walls to the horizontal
surface of the earth.
Through architecture a piece of natural space is as it
were set on its side so as to correspond to our
experience-space. In this new space we live not so
much against the earth as against the walls; our space
lies not upon the earth but between walls.
This space brings a completion to natural space that
allows it to be brought into relation with our
experience-space; at the same time it allows
specifically human space to be assimilated into the
homogeneous order of nature."
(Father Hans van der Laan)
Best regards,
R
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