• Title: The Poetics of Space
• Author: Gaston Bachelard
• Genre/Subject: Architecture and design
• Publisher: Beacon
• Publication Date: 1964
• Start date: 10/6/2022
• Finish date: 10/16/2022

Review:

Wow. This was a tough one. Not that it was bad, not at all, it was just difficult.

A treatise on the philosophy of how we experience our own houses. Using examples from poetry, psychiatry, and nature the author delves into the phenomenological ways that each area of our domiciles affect us.

Cellars, for example, are always experienced differently than attics. And the author examines n detail just how the different rooms give us different moods and emotions.

It’s very good to have a book that challenges as well as entertains. At least once in a while.