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"33. Figure-ground theory states that the space that results from placing figures should be considered as carefully as the figures themselves. Space is called negative space if it is unshaped after the placement of figures. It is positive space if it has a shape.

6. We move through nevative spaces and dwell in positive spaces. The shapes and qualities of architectural spaces greatly influence human experience and behaviour, for we inhabit the spaces of our built environment and not the solid walls, roofs, and columns that shape it. Positive spaces are almost always preferred by people for lingering and social interaction. Negative spaces tend to promote movement rather than dwelling in place.

8. "Architecture is the thoughtful making of space." - Louis Kahn

10. Our experience of an architectural space is strongly influenced by how we arrive in it. A tall, bright space will feel taller and brighter if counterpointed by a low-ceilinged, softly lit space. A monumental or sacred space will feel more significant when placed at the end of a sequence of lesser spaces. A room with south-facing windows will be more strongly experienced after one passes through a series of north-facing spaces."

Frederick, Matthew (2007) 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School. MIT Press, Cambridge.

"The pervasive smells of rubber, concrete, flesh; the taste of dust; the discomforting rubbing of an elbow on an abrasive surface; the pleasure of fur-lined walls and the pain of a corner hit upon in the dark; the echo of a hall - space is not simply the three-dimensional projection of a mental representation, but it is something that is heard, and is acted upon. And it is the eye that frames - the window, the door, the vanishing ritual of passage... Space of movement - corridors, staircases, ramps, passages, thresholds; here begins the articulation between the space of the senses and the space of society, the dances and gestures that combine the representation of space and the space of representation. Bodies not only move in but generate spaces produces by and through their movements. Movements - of dance, sport, war - are the intrusion of events into architectural spaces. At the limit, these events become scenarios or programs, void of moral or functional implications, independent but inseparable from the spaces that enclose them."

Tschumi, Bernard (1996) Architecture and Disjunction. Cambridge: MIT Press

Espacio público / Espacio privado
"El espacio público es móvil. El espacio privado es estático. El espacio público es disperso. El espacio privado es concentrado. EL espacio público está vacío, es la imaginación. El espacio privado está lleno, son objetos y memorias. El espacio público está indeterminado. El espacio privado es funcional. El espacio público es información, el espacio privado es opinión. El espacio público es el soporte. El espacio privado es el mensaje. El espacio público está, en fin, en equilibrio inestable. El espacio privado es por necesidad estable.


 * Espacio colectivo.** Anteriormente llamado espacio público. Hoy en día ha desaparecido la relación entre propiedad y uso. Espacios de propiedad privada son usados de manera pública (centros comerciales, aeropuertos...) y viceversa, espacios públicos son absorbidos por usos particulares. Aparecería una nueva modalidad en la que lo colectivo, el uso de una amplia agrupación de individuos, se convierte en su única característica constante."

Soriano, Federico (2001). En: // Diccionario metápolis de arquitectura avanzada //. Barcelona: Iaac. p 203.