The Concept Of Place

This is the longest essay that I have read in days. i read it so many times but still having a hard time understanding what the essay is about. I have marked some quotes from the essay and tried to tell it more in my way of thinking. Well the essay is a very poetic kind of an essay so it’s hard to figure out what it is saying.

The starting of this essay Heidegger has mentioned about the technical of a mobile life.

 ‘The essence of the city is not place but interaction’. This is very much true of what the auther tries to express as wen the place is mobile.It is true of what the author tries to express as when the place is mobile, interaction is impossible and the place turns out boring without a community, this actually looses its intrest and importance of a certail thing.i think everything should be related to each other which is nearby, especially in this case its talking about the environment. I strongly agre with this quote.­

The author then states that the world of child is evidently “egocentric”, meaning that everything is centralized or will return to the central point once it started. Everything has its central point or starting points and will always reflect back on its starting point or origin once it has started.

Here as the concept of place, the spots that we know, would be consider as a place for us, it would be a white spot in our map when we dnt know the certain places.its true this may happen to every single one. If u don’t remember a place or a area of what map in your mind (e.g. the place u live)u will be blur which is the white spot which this auther is talking about.

Modern architecture and past architectural ways are totally different.modern architecture says.”new relationship between interior and exterior space .” ,this actually explains that there should be a dividend for the exterior and interior.

There are many things that I didn’t undustand after I read it so many times but I agree most of his points of his speaking which I undustood.