Human space is an English translation of one of the most comprehensive studies of space as we experience it. Since it was published in Germany in 1963, Bollnow’s text has become a key reading in architecture, anthropology, and philosophy, and has been kept continuously in print (in 2010 the German edition was issued in its eleventh impression). The book is serious academic research and something more – showing a great sensitivity to the near and the everyday. The text is enlivened and illustrated with many quotations, principally from German and English literature. Our edition is translated by Christine Shuttleworth and has an afterword by Joseph Kohlmaier, who places the work in its context of philosophical and architectural discussion.
| availability | in print |
| published | 2011.05.05 |
| extent | 320 pp |
| dimensions | 215 × 125 mm |
| binding | sewn & flapped paperback |
| ISBN13 | 978-0-907259-35-0 |
| £20.00 |
Being speculative rather than scientific, Bollnow’s work has been met with a certain suspicion. His material, however, is very rich, drawing its references from nature, literature, art, history, anthropology, psychology and philosophy. His arguments are weighty and substantial, and create a most inspiring basis for further research.
Christian Norberg-Schulz, Existence, space and architecture, London: Studio Vista, 1971
