SPATIAL STRATEGIES SOLUTIONS

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...

SPATIAL AND SOCIAL STRATEGIES OF VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION

A simple, ancient, but nonetheless effective spatial strategy: placing high implies appreciation, placing low implies depreciation. Buildings situated high above our heads, on top of the hills or on high rocks we usually perceive as places of high importance, places of power. Heaven is the place of ultimate power (God, or Gods) in many cultures, and closeness to it, whether in ter...

Written by Dr Anna Markovic Plestovic

The moment that started the end of the cold war: Arrival of General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev of the USSR for his first meeting with President Reagan for the Geneva Summit at Fleur D’Eau in Switzerland. (from Ronald Reagan Presidential library collection)

Reading an excerpt on the role feng shui played at the first Reagan-Gorbachev s...

By Dr Anna Markovic Plestovic

I have posted this article in May 2012 on my site in serbo-croatian. Now, on the margins of the events in Istambul, where the people are defending the trees and their lives from the ever growing appetite of "development", i have translated it...

" A society grows ...

Written by: Boris Pecigosh

http://atelier-hayat.com/

Symbols exist in the immaterial domain of ideas, wherefrom they come forth to influence people through processes of materialization – painting, drawing, sculpting, writing, etc. Becoming material, they also become spatial, exerting their influence in physical space, relating to other elements of space, creating structures that also have their symbolic mea...

Written by Anna Markovic Plestovic

Previously I wrote about the influence spatial forms may have on individuals and various levels of society. Now I would like to give an example how individuals express their values in spatial arrangements. Of course, if those individuals are prominent public figures of considerable power and wealth, their individual spatial expressions are likely to have a much further reaching influence, then just their individual lives. And if they happen to be th...

Written by: Boris Pecigosh

http/www.atelier-hayat.com

The symbolism of numbers is often exploited in architecture, particularly for religious buildings. Although commonly used proportion is the golden ratio, from antiquity through the Renaissance to the present day, it is not the only use of the geometric relationships of numbers. The symbolism of the numbers reflected in the decoration of the...

In a previous article I wrote about hierarchies of places deliberately shaped by the designs of spatial patterns. Now I would like to show the other way round, that spatial hierarchies can also define sense of social order and values through individual spatial experience. These influences are present and active on a long timeline, even transmitted to next generations t...

Written by: Boris Pecigosh

www.atelier-hayat.com

In the psychology of man, there is an inherent propensity to symbols. We like things that represent something for us and carries some special meaning. Those things can remind us of some beautiful memories of life, or the beloved person, but can carry much deeper meanings. Such symbols can talk about our beliefs, or represent the external manifest...