When thinking about Architecture and how tectonics relates, space plays a very important factor in the two. It's not just the interior space but the exterior space too that comes to mind. And space isn't the thing that connects the two, but it also is the thing that determines the architecture and determines the tectonics.
Typography to me wouldn't at first be considered to go along with this reading, but after thinking about how things were done years ago, it seems it almost should be considered like space. The example from the reading about the man placing a stone down as a marker is a good example of this.
The section about the Berber house is interesting. The way the house is opposite and has the external world on interior. The house becomes a reflection of outside world.
The best quote from our reading. "A space is something that has been made for, something that is cleared and free, namely within a boundary, Greek peras. A boundary is not that at which something stops, but as the Greeks recognized, the boundary is that from which something begins its presencing... space is in essence that for which room has been made, that which is let into its bounds. That for which room is made is always granted and hence is joined, that is gathered, by virtue of a location". -pg 22
Technology plays a tricky role in this because on one side it has helped to evolve things but on the other side, people see it as "disturbing".
I do feel that technology should never go against Tradition, no matter how obsolete something may get. It is the progress from which we learn from. "The way in which we anticipate the future defines the meaning that the past can have for us, just as the way in which our ancestors projected the future determines our own range of possibilities". -pg. 24
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