Most texts about historical buildings describe the spaces only indirectly, by comparison to other buildings, references to art, an account of their origin, or the life story of their maker. Instead, the following descriptions of 3 architectural spaces created by Francesco Borromini provide a documentation, a translation from the medium of architecture into the medium of language. An attempt to approximate the unfiltered experience of an architectural space by language alone, they distinguish themselves fundamentally from texts in the field of the history or theory of architecture. The choice of the described spaces for the essay "Definitions of Space" is based on personal experience. It comprises buildings by Kazuo Sliinohara. Antoni Gaudi,. John Lautner, and Vilanova Artigas.
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