Human space

Human Space Is An English Translation Of One Of The Most Comprehensive Studies Of Space As We Experience It. Since It Was Published In Germany In 1963, Bollnow's Text Has Become A Key Reading In Architecture, Anthropology, And Philosophy, And Has Been Kept Continuously In Print (in 2010 The German Edition Was Issued In Its Eleventh Impression). The Book Is Serious Academic Research And Something More - Showing A Great Sensitivity To The Near And The Everyday. The Text Is Enlivened And Illustrated With Many Quotations, Principally From German And English Literature. Our Edition Is Translated By Christine Shuttleworth And Has An Afterword By Joseph Kohlmaier, Who Places The Work In Its Context Of Philosophical And Architectural Discussion.--pub. Desc. Machine Generated Contents Note: On The History Of The Question -- Contrast With Mathematical Space -- Concept Of Experienced Space -- Spatiality Of Human Life -- 1. Aristotelian Concept Of Space -- Natural Place -- Space As A Vessel -- 2. Word Usage And Etymology -- Everyday Linguistic Usage -- Linguistic References -- 'orte' And 'stellen' In Space -- 3. Natural Coordinate System -- Vertical Axis And Horizontal Plane: Upright Man -- Earth's Surface -- Firmness Of The Ground And The Forms Of Its Loss -- Front And Back: Man On The Move -- Right And Left Sides -- 4. Centre Of Space -- Question Of The Zero Point Of Space -- Going Away And Coming Back -- Order Around The Centre -- Finiteness Of The World -- 5. Points Of The Compass -- Orientation In Space -- Mythical Geography -- Other Schemes Of Direction -- Preferred Places -- Directions Of Travel And Regions Of Life -- 6. Horizon And Perspective -- Double Aspect Of The Horizon -- Perspective -- Perspective And Horizon In The Figurative Sense -- 1. Expanse, Distance And The Foreign -- New Question -- Pushing Forward Into The Infinite Distance Of Space -- Baroque Interior -- Narrowness And Expanse -- Foreign -- Distance -- 2. Path And The Road -- Opening Up Of Space -- Origin Of Paths -- Road-building -- Road Network -- Alteration Of Space -- A. Homogenization Of Space -- B. Eccentric Space -- Man On The Road -- A. Forward Urge -- B. Loss Of The Dimension Of Width -- C. Fleeting Nature Of Human Contact -- 3. Wanderer's Path -- Wandering -- Path -- Aimlessness And Timelessness -- Joy Of Departure -- Returning To One's Origins -- Function Of Wandering -- 1. Meaning Of The House -- House As Centre Of The World -- Dwelling -- Space And Security -- Bachelard On The Joy Of Dwelling -- Anthropological Function -- Vulnerability Of The House -- 2. Sacred Space -- Return To Mythological Thinking -- Sacred Space -- House As Image Of The World -- City -- Conclusion -- 3. Homeliness Of The Dwelling -- 4. Door And Window -- Door -- Lock -- Threshold -- Window -- Orientation In The Environment -- Transporting Effect Of The Window -- 5. Bed -- Hearth And Table As The Middle Of The House -- Bed As Centre -- Indications From Linguistic And Cultural History -- Security In The Bed -- Upright Posture -- Lying Down -- 6. Waking Up And Falling Asleep -- A. Waking Up -- Uncertain Sense Of Existence -- Building Up Of Near Space -- Identification Of Place -- B. Falling Asleep -- Return To The Unconscious Mind -- Feeling Of Security -- Deep Sleep -- Double Movement Of Life -- 1. Hodological Space -- Distance -- Cave-like Character Of The Living Space -- Hodological Space According To Lewin -- Sartre's Continuation -- Hodological Structure Of The Landscape -- 2. Space Of Action -- Extension Of The Hodological Concept Of Space -- Tangibility Of Objects In Space -- Ordering Of Space -- Comprehensibility Of Living Space -- Room To Manoeuvre -- Extending The Concept Of The Space Of Action -- 3. Day Space And Night Space -- Relationship Between The Two Spaces -- Day Space -- Twilight Spaces -- A. Forest -- B. Fog -- C. Falling Snow -- D. Twilight -- Night Space -- A. Moving Through The Night -- B. Descriptions Of Minkowski And Merleau-ponty -- 4. Mood And Space -- Sense Of Narrowness And Expanse -- Concept Of Mood Space -- Sensual-moral Effect Of Colour -- Interior Spaces -- Constricting Space Of The Anxious Heart -- Euphoric Space -- Poetic Confirmation -- 5. Presential Space -- Spatial Character Of Sound -- Purposeful Freedom Of Dance -- Changed Relationship With Space -- Presential Movement -- Critique Of Straus's Dualistic Spatial Schema -- 6. Space Of Human Coexistence -- Struggle For Living Space -- Space Of Loving Togetherness -- Space-creating Power Of Love -- Foundation Of The Home -- Common Space Of Friendly Co-operation -- 1. Being-in-space And Having-space -- Intentionality As A Starting Point -- Space As A Medium -- Forms Of Sensation Of Space -- Dwelling -- Having-space -- Individual Space -- 2. Forms Of Individual Space -- Three Areas Of Dwelling -- Body -- A. Body And Exterior Space -- B. Unobtrusiveness Of The Body -- C. Incarnation As A Mode Of Having-a-body -- House -- A. Incarnation In The House -- B. Transformation Of Man In His House -- C. Territory Of Animals -- Free Space -- A. Protective Character Of Space -- B. Dwelling In Free Space -- C. Other Forms Of Becoming One With Space -- 3. Summary And Prospects -- Modes Of Human Space -- Precedence Of Protective Space -- Requirements For True Dwelling. Otto Friedrich Bollnow ; Translated By Christine Shuttleworth ; Introduction By Joseph Kohlmaier. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Translated From The German. 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Bollnow Human space Translated by Christine Shuttleworth Edited by Joseph Kohlmaier Hyphen Press, LondonPublished by Hyphen Press, London, in 2011 Translated from Mensch und Raum published by W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, in 1963 The translation of this work was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut, which is funded by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs Text © 1963 W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart, 11. Auflage 2010This translation copyright © Hyphen Press, 2011 Afterword copyright © Joseph Kohlmaier, 2011 The book was designed, typeset and made into pages by Shoko Mugikura at Polimekanos, London, in Adobe InDesign; the cover was designed with Joseph Kohlmaier, London and Isle of Wight. The text was output in the typefaces Miller, Neuzeit Grotesk, and Graphik. The index was made by Christine Shuttleworth, London. Proofs of the pages in progress were read by Robin Kinross, London. The book was made and printed by DeckersSnoeck in Belgium. ISBN 978-0-907259-35-0Some markups and highlights toward beginning. Nothing interferes with text. O.F. Bollnow Human space Translated by Christine Shuttleworth Edited by Joseph Kohlmaier Hyphen Press, London Published by Hyphen Press, London, in 2011 Translated from Mensch und Raum published by W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, in 1963 The translation of this work was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut, which is funded by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs Text © 1963 W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart, 11. Auflage 2010 This translation copyright © Hyphen Press, 2011 Afterword copyright © Joseph Kohlmaier, 2011 The book was designed, typeset and made into pages by Shoko Mugikura at Polimekanos, London, in Adobe InDesign; the cover was designed with Joseph Kohlmaier, London and Isle of Wight. The text was output in the typefaces Miller, Neuzeit Grotesk, and Graphik. The index was made by Christine Shuttleworth, London. Proofs of the pages in progress were read by Robin Kinross, London. The book was made and printed by DeckersSnoeck in Belgium. ISBN 978-0-907259-35-0 Following its publication in Germany in 1963, Otto Friedrich Bollnow's Human Space quickly became essential reading within a cross-disciplinary field of subject areas including architecture, anthropology, and philosophy. In this first English translation, Bollnow conceives the human experience of space not merely as a philosophical problem but also as an extension of his research into psychology, human behavior, and the conventional domains of living in a building, in an apartment, in a house. Human Space is a remarkable investigation of space as we experience it, by a man many consider to be the father of spatial and architectural anthropology. This lush hardcover edition includes an afterword by Joseph Kohlmaier that situates the work in the context of philosophical and architectural discussion.