Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home…. Bachelard implicitly urges architects to base their work on the experiences it will engender rather than on abstract rationales that may or may not affect viewers and users of architecture. He is thus led to consider spatial types such as the attic, the cellar, drawers and the like. He focuses especially on the personal, emotional response to buildings both in life and in literary works, both in prose and in poetry. Commentators have compared Bachelard's views to those of the philosopher Martin Heidegger.īachelard applies the method of phenomenology to architecture, basing his analysis not on purported origins (as was the trend in Enlightenment thinking about architecture) but on lived experience in architectural places and their contexts in nature. The book is considered an important work about art. The Poetics of Space ( French: La Poétique de l'Espace) is a 1958 book about architecture by the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard.
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