In the essay “About Place and Occasion, The Inbetween Realm and Labyrinthian Clarity” Aldo van Eyck has explored and explained key terms and evocative mottos manifested in architect’s designs and writings, such as the shift from ‘space and time’ to ‘place and occasion’, the greater reality of the doorstep, the in-between realm, twin phenomena, reciprocity and relativity.
The TWIN PHENOMENA, an original concept of Van Eyck’s, suggests that real polarities (such as subject and object, interior and exterior, small and large, open and closed, part and whole) are not conflicting entities but distinctive components, two complementary halves of one and the same entity (Strauven, 2007). The presence of one quality is to give a meaning to the other: they cannot exist without their opposites.
Taking these Phenomena, the poster explores some of the conflicting qualities, which can be present in the architectural context and which form the Inbetween Realm.
