You find yourself plunged into a deep black silent void.
It is all around you, all within you and all without you.
You seem to have lost every notion of time or space.
You see nothing. You hear nothing.
There is not even the slightest perception of smell or taste or touch.
You don't receive any information at all,
as if your senses had been switched off, all of a sudden.
You think to yourself: What the hell is happening to me? -
At this very moment, you have entered your individual world interior.
The Invention of Space is the initial volume in a four-part series on ALICE, this new book focuses on how its innovative curriculum primes students to recognize the cultural practices embedded in the invention of space. Architectural spaces are conceived—and experienced—collectively within the incorporating culture. How can culture, together with a raft of completing concerns, be best translated in the design process? The book explores this and related questions through a fictional narrative, in essays and with more than three-hundred images.
Edited by Dieter Dietz, Matthias Michel & Daniel Zamarbide
Matthias Michel (text)
Dylan Perrenoud (photography)
Jonas Voegeli (design)
Agathe Mignon (coordinating editor)
Park Books