Concrete Geometries  —
spatial form & social relations

According to Benjamin, of the two possible ways to appropriate architecture, the appropriation through use and habit prevails over visual contemplation . . . while contemporary cognitive research increasingly seems to imply that although a large part of our interaction with the environment may be going on unconsciously, it will still affect our behaviour.

Contemporary digital architectural design is characterized by an understanding of geometry as logico-algebraic text out of which architectural form emerges through the manipulation of data. By looking at the etymological roots of mathematics, the author of this text relates geometry back to bodily experience and the question of spatial orientation.