Show BOXES The reference to buildings. BOXVILLE Planet earth as charted by other civilisations in the galaxy. BUILDING An extremely vague term referring to the boxes or architecture in the man made environment. An airplane could just as well be referred to as a building since the airplane was built. An adjective that became a nown. Action that became a thing. BUILDINGS Plural of building. The reference to the man made environment. Any group of boxes or architecture. CARTESIAN Rene Descartes the French mathematician philosopher gave us the Cartesian coordinate xyz axis system. The modern environment is Cartesian since it is a literal xyz axis in steel and glass. CONCRETE Architecture is abstract in opposition to nature which is concrete. Points lines and planes - geometry - is the ultimate abstraction and in ultimate contrast to the concreteness of anything living. CONTINUAL SPACE The synonym for continumorphic space. The description of what exists in the virgin landscape - one polyhedron following another indefinitely. CONTINUMORPH The environmental or architectural analogue to the polymorphic order of nature. Analogue or interface. The eytemology is from continuum and morphology. The smallest form or "morph" in a continuum is a continue-morph hence continumorph. A continuum is any whole with parts hence the parts of man's continuum are continuumorphs. Continumorphs derive in infinite sets of infinite extension where topology governs the qualities of the members of the set. The micro space of building an environment in harmony with nature. Concrete space. The subject of the discipline continumorphology. Unique space in and of itself. Metaphysically contrary to abstract space. The radical concept of architectural history. CONTINUMORPHIC SPACE "Continumorphic" means space in the first place since there has never been any space anywhere in architectural history in the beginning. The mechanics of continumorphic space subsume structure that is the engineering of dynamic equilibrium. -95- |