Spaces, Poetics and Voids

COLOPHON

MODI OPERANDI #01
This publication was initiated and developed by the Border Conditions & Territories research group and financially supported by the Faculty of Architecture (Delft University of Technology) and the Border Conditions Foundation.

PROJECT
Spaces, Poetics and Voids

by Simone Pizzagalli

AUTHORS

Simone Pizzagalli, Marc Schoonderbeek and Nicolò Privileggio

EDITOR

Marc Schoonderbeek

EDITORIAL BOARD

Stefano Milani and Marc Schoonderbeek

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Prof. Mark Dorrian, prof. Neil Leach and prof. Axel Sowa

INVOLVED EDUCATIONAL STAFF

Raviv Ganchrow, Freerk Hoekstra, Oscar Rommens, Marc Schoonderbeek and Heidi Sohn

COPY EDITOR

Patricia Brigid Garvin

LAYOUT & DESIGN
www.josephplateau.nl

Joseph plateau

TECHNICAL REALISATION
www.nlware.com

NLWare

PUBLISHER
Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology

IMAGE, PHOTO AND MAP CREDITS
The publisher has attempted to meet the conditions imposed by law for the use of the illustrations. Anyone who nevertheless wishes to assert any rights to this material is invited to contact the publisher.
All images and photographs presented in this book are provided by the authors and contributors, with the exception of pages xx-xx, photographs by Hans Schouten].

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Special thanks and sincere gratitude to:
Dean prof. Karin Laglas for moral, financial and organizational support.
Prof. Mark Dorrian, prof. Neil Leach and prof. Axel Sowa, for sharing their insights and providing scientific reflections.
em. Prof. S. Umberto Barbieri and prof. Michiel Riedijk, for their continuous support of the Border Conditions program.
Nicolò Privileggio, for the precious theoretical reflections and feedbacks.
Michaël Snitker, for taking this publication to an unexpected, profound level of clarity.
Patricia Brigid Garvin, for meticulously improving and clarifying all texts.
all involved scholars and dedicated teachers in the Border Conditions graduate program and the Border Conditions & Territories research program.

Simone Pizzagalli offers special thanks to Afer Pastor for her constant support and patience, and to Fonds BKVB for supporting his work as an independent architect during 2010.

www.borderconditions.org
www.menabo-architecture.com
www.post–office.eu
www.archiprix.org

Copyright © 2012 by TU Delft

TheoryAnalysisDesign

TU Delft / Faculty of Architecture