SUCH BUT

AS ONLY

LIGHT, AS

BALANCE,

PROPORTION. IN RELATION

~CALEt TO

ANO

SHAPE

WILL

BE

DISCUSSED

LATER

59

CONSIDERED

A SPECIFIC

FORM

IN A SPECIFIC SINCE

CONTEXT.4 ARCHITECTURE

4:

c.f. space' note.

Bruno Levi - 'Architecture see footnote

as

above Chapter1

THE C~N[~ATINO ALINE

PROPERTY

OF ALL ARCHITECTURAL MEANS OF EXPRESSiOn

FORM

IS VOLUME,

AMONG THE PLASTiC 5.

DEMANDS

COMPREHENSION

DOTH

INTERN-

..J:

s e , Lui,:!i

'.oretti.

'~)t"'lJtture

ALLY AND EXTERNALLV. CONSIDE~ WHICH VOLUME NEITHER DIF~ERN'E SENSE:

15

IT IS NECESSARY IN TERMS ACADEMIC OFTEN

A

TO THE DEVELOPMENT RATHER

OF THIS ~ 6 TO

SE:'1ucnz~ di spazi ' .pazio 7. flee. 1'tJ2. ~:e pos i t s ar'cl, i t ec t.ure as
be i n'j r.> od thro Sh c+ i arose tiro.

ARCHITECTURE NOT MERELY

OF VOLUME

THAN SPACE - A DISTINCTION

AND PHILOLOGICAL.6. BEEN USED LOOSELY INSTRUMENT VOLUME

I N MODERN

CRITICI$M

THE TERMS SO THAT

~I stie values. inside space and 'IUd I i ty ,)f 1'I,3t,:r ia I used; the r,'ost rerr~5ent 'spice'

tive ter~

of lhese

being

AND SPACE HAVE IS ANY LONGER B[TWEEN

AND INTERChANGEABLY DISCOURSE. OF

l'

USEFUL

OF RATIONAL

THE ESSENTIAL

6:

In 'The Ear-t+ , tne

Gcd'~ talks Yale laos_I; 1962, of

Tu", Ie 3n'_i the Vincent

':icully ~nd

THE TERMS

IS THAT DEFINED

CAN BE THOUGHT SPACE.

IN A DYNAMIC OF IT.

pcsitlve

IT IS PARTICULARIZED, A PRESSURE

AND CONTAINED

IT CAN BE THOUGHT EXERT~O UPON

r1,,;,.~iv_ space

"',lyirg

th~t negi"'I,lies

at i ve sfx.,CJ ita.'. r.o inh-?I"<ml. f or cc s :

AS BOTH EXERTING THUS, 'SPACE',

AND CAPABLE

OF RESISTlNG UNBOUND THAT

PRESSURES

1:.-,', the-

ie.rll'

'volume'

an

l n i t i a l conc' i t i or.In

of neutral

CONSIOE~ED

AS A CONTINUOUS,

CONCITION

BECOMES

A RE UN

ANT TERM, EVEN THOUGH SPACE

7

IT MUST 8E CONCE:OED

ALL F~RM6

[XIST

IN THIS STATE.

7:

The ',or'd
d~fin~d

sr'

.ce ' is hr

us.cc as

CANNOT

ACT, FLOW, OR I~TERPENETRATE OF AS 'VOLUME' BROUGHT

IN ITS OWN RIGHT. IN 'SPACE'.

ARCHITECTURAL VOLUME IS THE OYN-

by Nti~tun

'~~30Iul~ space r"rlaiAs

aI1ll2_""

in its

o.n n~tur withoul r latian

exl."rn<d, ovab I e. fitll ali v e or

FORM CAN BE THOUGHT AMIC CONDITION CANNOT

THAT EXISrS

to ",rttl-'in"

sin i l ar anc i

OF SPACE,

ABOUT BY ITS LIMITATIOW CONDITION SINCE

AND CONTAINMENTS

19
AND
2

"p'",

is "om" ',ov"/)I,,, dimension of th, ab so l ote sVices'.

IT", ""rI::

SE THOUGHT

OF IN AN UNSTRESSED NECESSARY

BY DEFI~ITtQN BETWEEN VOLUME

II IS A~t-

'~rinci. iJ m~thematica'

IVATED 5PAt;E. EXTERNAL SULTING EXTERNAL POSITIVE

IT IS FURTHER
'I

TO UIFFERENTIATE INTERNAL

INTERNAL

Thus P~'0fsky.
Vi',IIdl

'~eaniny
".21.

in the
. the
'C~le

i.rts',

VOLUME."

IT WILL BE ASSUMED STATEMENT

3

THAT ALL

IS POSITIVE'

RE-

b~3ic
V"T:,LS

anti-lnesiE.
continuity

oiff~~entiation
- vo luee t r i c I i -i

ts

FROM A PURP~SEFUL VOLUME VOLUMES

OF ENCLOSURE

A~D CONTAINMENT,

AND THAT ALL

V:,3U5

i I I i i l'd expanse

space ) ,

IS NEGATIVE; WHICH CREATE

THE RESULTANT AN ACTIVATED

OF A JUXTAPOSITION SPACE BETWEEN WHICH THEM.

OF TWO OR MO~E
9: sz~ abc.vs no ce 6.

THIS ASSUMP10: For til~ first The second se e Arnheim

interpretation

TION PARTIALLY OR PRECISE LATIVE

DENIES

TWO POSSIBLE

INTERPRETATIONS

DO NOT SEEM RELEVANT AS NEGATIVE RE-

'Art

and

Vi sua I I ar capt i on'

London. 1955.
Is put

ENOUGH

FOR THIS ARGUMENT. PERSON

THE ONE POSITS

ALL VOLUME

4"
TO THE INDIVIDUAL TO ANY POSITIVE OBJECT PLACE WITHIN IT. THIS

for~ard by Erno Goldfinger. 'The Sensation of Space' 4rchiteetural

"" .. i... vAC. 1~1. ...nd .. 1~o b;t