I remember myself; a three-year-old boy playing in front of our house in a street. I clearly remember that by running through the width of that street for a couple of times, I completely would black out because for me it was really vast. Finally, we left the city and I never saw the street again.
After 15 years, I went to find my childhood house in my hometown and I never found that. Yes, I found the exact location and it was really like our home and that street like the street in my mind but only visually. However millions of other factors were just unfamiliar for me. Believe me I am sure, I found the street width a middle range one. Don’t Einstein define a theory about streets being short over time? No?
I am not to clarify the definition of space and place. However I always use place instead of space and I should add this fact that no one has complained me yet about this, maybe you will be the first (just sometimes to mention the space where the stars are located or something with a specific dimension, I use the world “space”). As people we create places and call them big, large, huge, small, tiny, lovely, cool, interesting and millions of other adjectives, you don’t need to be an architect to make a place. We use any adjective to describe the place which is probably a part of space. We don’t care if it is curved or not. My point is; if none of our conceptions are fixed and constant, we may have as different conceptions of space and place as the number of people and other intelligent creatures in the whole world. Even our conceptions can be changed by growing up or aging. We can find something smaller than what we thought before and just expand this too all other conceptions of place and space.
A scientist tried to document the movement of a seagull and it end up something like 3D computerized modeling two centuries later. When someone speak about a very complicated theory which says time is fluid not constant, how could it end up? Relativity is something out of my conception. It is connected to me just when I dream about it.
I am not to prototype but I think architects like other people can make places, the only different is they can be able to program a physical space to be the context of a place and it’s just a program and can be something completely different from what they thought at the end.
Maybe what I wrote is not related to what I read. It is just the thing which came to my mind right after reading the texts.