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Review. Three or four decades ago a book entitled The Poetics of Space could hardly fail to stir the architectural imagination. First published in French in 1957 and translated into English in 1964, Gaston Bachelard’s philosophical meditation on oneiric space appeared at a moment when phenomenology and the pursuit of symbolic and archetypal ...
241 (English translation) ISBN. 0-8070-6439-4 (English edition) The Poetics of Space (French: La Poétique de l'Espace) is a 1958 book about architecture by the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard. The book is considered an important work about art. Commentators have compared Bachelard's views to those of the philosopher Martin Heidegger.
- Gaston Bachelard
- 1958
Oct 10, 2024 · It's been 60 years since French thinker Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space made its English-language debut.It’s a hard-to-define book — part architecture, philosophy, psychoanalysis ...
Introduction. "The Poetics of Space" by Gaston Bachelard is a philosophical and poetic exploration of the significance of spaces in our lives. Published in 1958, this influential work delves into the intimate relationship between human emotions, imagination, and the spaces we inhabit. Bachelard's thought-provoking insights have made this book a ...
Bachelard published The Poetics of Space in 1958, only four years before his death. The book explores the human relationship with interior spaces and the emotional architecture of a home. Bachelard’s work is rooted in phenomenology, the study of consciousness and experience. This guide refers to the 2014 version translated by Maria Jolas.
Jun 23, 2011 · In his "The Poetics of Space" Gaston Bachelard introduces his concept of "topoanalysis" which he defines as "the systematic psychological study of the sites of out intimate lives" (The Poetics of Space, p.8). He then proceeds to assert that "in the theatre of the past that is constituted by memory, the stage setting maintains the characters in ...
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House as the realm of the soul. Bachelard starts his essay with an introduction to childhood home and its connection to the psyche. Associating the verticality of a house with the conscious mind, similarly, the cellar with underground walls signify walls people build around them, which birth from fear, and attics with the fear of burglars.
