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Light and Space
Space holds the key to the meaning of architecture. Talking about architecture means talking about space – space delimited by tangible material. We perceive this space through the interplay of light and shadows, to such an extent that Proclus, the fifth-century AD Neoplatonist thinker, declared that space and light were one and the same thing.
From ancient times, space had been seen as an abstract idea, discussed in philosophy and metaphysics, or ...
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