INTERNATIONAL OBSERVATORY
OF STUDIES IN ARCHITECTONIC
AND ARTISTIC DESIGN

living between
INTERACTIONS MAN HOUSE COSMOS
new researches on contemporary space

SEMINARS OF STUDIES, RESEARCHES, WORKSHOPS, CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS, WEBSITE, EXHIBITION, BOOK, FINAL DISCUSSION

PALERMO  MADRID  PORTO   january 2003 - march 2004

Research lines proposed

 

A LOOK AT THE ORIGINS

I. interactions man house cosmos in the building experience of the house in the ancient and ethnic civilizations

 

 

It is interesting to note that in some PRIMITIVE SOCIETIES factors of religious nature act in a determining way in the interior organization. Very often one can note a close correspondence between the complex division of the interiors and an elaborated conception of universe.

susanna rostas

 

BALANCE BETWEEN LIFE AND COSMIC ENERGIES. The research for this balance was not only founded on esoteric values, but it conveyed general symbols and knowledge that were the basis for the form of the hut, of the house, of the building and even of the town: and this in highly refined civilizations, bearing inside themselves the idea of the universal.

françois burkhardt