Journal article
LEARNING TO FORGET: Architectural Recreation, Spatial Visualization and Imaging the Unseen
Architectural theory review, v 5(2), pp 44-60
01 Nov 2000
Abstract
Children learn through play, through re-creating situations and events. While playing, children forget themselves, time is suspended, and mind, body and emotions work together simultaneously in the child's re-creations. This is a four-dimensional type of space, similar to the intuitive inner space that opens up during the spatial visualization of architectural recreation. The following discusses an architectural pedagogy that teaches students how to forget: how to leave behind the inherent symbolic and logic structures of the rational mind that would have them name things, so that they may develop the abilities of the metaphoric mind to visualize spatially and image the unseen.
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- Title
- LEARNING TO FORGET: Architectural Recreation, Spatial Visualization and Imaging the Unseen
- Creators
- Eugenia Ellis - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Architectural theory review, v 5(2), pp 44-60
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Number of pages
- 17
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering; [Retired Faculty]
- Other Identifier
- 991014632069104721