The Poetics of Space
The classic look at how we experience intimate places
Gaston Bachelard ; with a foreword by John R. Stilcoe ; translated from the French by Maria Jolas

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Author(s)

Gaston Bachelard

Publisher, year

Boston : Beacon Press, 1994 (first published 1958)

Scope

241 p., 21 cm.

ISBN

0807064734

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French phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard's classic study of the psychological affects of domestic space. Bachelard takes us on a journey, from cellar to attic, to show how our perceptions of houses and other shelters shape our thoughts, memories and dreams.

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Location

Cultural approach to (urban) space

Extra themes

Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;