Poetics of Place
EDITED BY Angeliki Sioli, Klaske Havik, and Vincent Cellucci
PUBLISHED BY nai010 publishers and TU Delft OPEN Publishing
SEEING THINGS IN SEEING THINGS BY Andrew Carr
How does poetry emerge from a place, and how can poetry reveal knowledge about a place, particularly for spatial design? This first installment in the Writingplace book series explores how the connections between architecture and poetry can offer insights into understanding and designing places. Poetics of Place approaches this theme from two poetic perspectives.
The chapters in the first part examine, from a literary perspective, how poetic language is used in literature to evoke qualities of situatedness. Then, a perspective from (spatial) practice is explored by authors who move between architecture and poetry, and who use poetic writing as a way to investigate places. The third part offers interviews with people who put such a poetic approach into practice, in literature, in architectural education, or in working with local communities. Poems are also included in the book.
Andrew Carr writes an architecturla response to Seamus Heaney who Níall has referenced in some of our projects.