SPATIAL STRATEGIES SOLUTIONS

BELGRADE WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT

Urbanism seems to be a very hot topic in Belgrade. This is very strange, given that the vast majority of Belgrade’s million-plus residents try to figure out where they belong in the new global order and to make ends meet from one day to another. Serbians are once again adjusting to an uneasy position on the fluid frontiers of Europe`s borderlands and ideolog...

“Human thoughts, feelings, aspirations, values and beliefs are also manifestations of the universal essence, the energy-matter, the Qi. They are intangible, immeasurable, immaterial, but they influence our material realities, the material forms of our environment. The essential qualities inherent to these intangible manifestations we can read in the material forms, distributions and spatial relations of physical environment. Therefore it should be possible to construe pla...

This is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Serbia" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Palace of Serbia in Belgrade (Serbia), known also as the Palace of the Federation or SIV, the building built for the federal administration of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslavia" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Yugoslavia, where the Federal executive council (the Government of Yugoslavia) held its meetings. This is the building wherefrom the once worldwide admired “Yugos...

Sipping my morning coffee and lazily browsing through Facebook I could not avoid to see the main news of the region: Hungary is building a fence along its borderline to Serbia in order to stop refugees from Middle East - now called illegal immigrants in order to generate massive animosity towards them - entering Hungary. Sincerely, I would not give it a se...

Recently I had a most interesting and direct insight into deep spatial character of human affairs, and the ways space (and time also, through space) influences us, for better or for worse. After fifteen years of research and of designing, arranging and rearranging spaces in order to heal lives, families and companies with feng shui, I am confident to say that space can heal us every bit as much as it can make us sick. By space here I refer to the spatial frame of human existence through ti...

When I came upon this picture, it was not the simple message that caught my attention, but the use of spatiality to influence reality through perception.

The first thing that came to my mind was a quote often used in feng shui that says “water governs wealth, mountain governs people”. While by water we are talking in somewhat symbolic manner about the open space in front of a site f...

“Some people search for beautiful places, others make a place beautiful” says Hazrat Inayat Khan, teacher of Universal Sufism and Indian classical musician

SEARCHING

Finding and creating beauty is a primal human need, one of the ways to search for the meaning of existence. Still, beauty itself, as well as the mechanism of experiencing beauty, escapes definition. Social research institute

SHOULD DRAGONS BE TAMED, OR SHOULD HYPATIA RECEIVE AN APOLOGY?

After the imagery,

SPATIALITY

Now we have come to the part about what was it that made me feel like I did while standing at Meteora and at the Acropolis? One can assume it was the “spirit” of the two places, but by that nothing is really explained. That spirit, the genius loci

SYMBOLISM

In the first part I have taken you to the tour of religious imageries and the position of feminine principle that can be derived from these imageries, which I understood through the symbols of I Ching.

Now, what Pallas Athene and Virgin Mary...